The GPAI Policy Lab (General-Purpose AI Policy Lab) is an independent French nonprofit based at Campus Cyber in La Défense, Paris, and incubated at Sciences Po. With the motto "Understand, Coordinate, Act," it produces research and policy briefs aimed at helping French and European institutional actors understand, anticipate, and respond to the security and governance challenges of advanced general-purpose AI. Its work bridges cutting-edge AI safety research — covering topics such as interpretability, reward hacking, and situational awareness — with the operational needs of French security and defense institutions. The lab also runs training programs in AI governance and engages in international coordination activities.
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The GPAI Policy Lab holds that catastrophic and existential risks from advanced AI can be meaningfully reduced by building robust state capacity in key governments — particularly France and its European allies — to understand, anticipate, and govern frontier AI systems. By translating technical AI safety research (interpretability, robustness, control, autonomous replication) into policy-accessible briefs and direct advisory services for security and defense institutions, the lab aims to close the gap between what AI systems can do and what governments can effectively oversee. Parallel training programs develop the next generation of AI governance professionals. The lab further seeks to foster international coordination among allied governments to prevent dangerous races to the bottom in AI governance standards.
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