NYC AI Governance & Safety: February Happy Hour

​Join us for NYAIGS’ first event of 2026. Since launching last spring, NYAIGS has become a convening space for people working across AI safety, security, governance, and public policy, spanning academia, think tanks, industry, startups, philanthropy, government, media, and more. This event is a chance to reconnect, meet new faces, and continue building our community.

​Evening line-up:

• ​6:00-6:30: mingling, drinks, small bites

• ​6:30: Welcome, lightning talks, and Q+A

  • ​Stephen Clare, International AI Safety Report 2026, the launch of the 2026 International AI Safety Report

  • ​Connacher Murphy, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, measuring economic impacts of AI

  • ​Josh You, Epoch, a primer on compute scaling

  • ​Charvi Rastogi, Google DeepMind, participatory red-teaming

• ​7:30 onwards: continued mingling

​Feel free to forward this invitation to interested folks. Space is limited, so apologies if we are not able to accept all RSVPs. 

​​Organizers: 

​​Patricia Paskov (RAND): AI capability evaluations and frontier AI governance 

​​Dan Altman (Google DeepMind): Frontier safety & governance

​​Note: This event is organized in a personal capacity.