Short Bio

Charbel-Raphaël Segerie is the Executive Director of CeSIA, the French Center for AI Safety, and an OECD AI Expert. CeSIA is part of the official evaluator consortium for the EU AI Office’s Code of Practice on harmful manipulation risks (2026–2028).

He initiated and co-led the Global Call for AI Red Lines, endorsed by 12 Nobel laureates and 10 former heads of state, presented at the UN General Assembly by Nobel Peace laureate Maria Ressa, and highlighted by Yoshua Bengio at the UN Security Council. The campaign received 300+ media mentions worldwide (NYT, BBC, Le Monde, TIME, NBC).

He founded ML4Good, an EU Commission-funded AI safety programme replicated 20+ times worldwide with a 98% participant recommendation rate. He created the curriculum for an AI safety course at ENS Paris-Saclay and ENS Ulm — the first university-accredited course on general-purpose AI safety in the EU. He is the scientific director of the AI Safety Atlas, used by 1,000+ students worldwide.

He was previously Head of AI Safety at EffiSciences, and has experience in the industry as a startup CTO (Omniscience). He has worked in French research institutions (Inria Parietal, NeuroSpin/CEA). His research focuses on identifying emerging risks in AI, with publications at ACM FAccT, ICML, and TMLR on RLHF limitations, LLM safeguards, and AI safety evaluation methods.

He convened workshops at the India AI Impact Summit (2026), co-organized the AI Safety Symposium at the AI Action Summit (2025), and has presented twice at the French Senate on AI risks and governance. He has appeared on TF1, France Inter, and collaborated on a YouTube video on AI risks reaching 4 million views.