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28 countries and the EU agree the Bletchley Declaration on frontier AI risks

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Source: GOV.UK: The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023Also reported by UK Government, 2 November 2023, Burges Salmon

At the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on 1 and 2 November 2023, 28 countries and the EU, including the US, China and India, agreed the Bletchley Declaration on risks from frontier AI, naming misuse, loss of control, cybersecurity and biotechnology. On 2 November governments and companies agreed that frontier models should be tested before and after deployment with a government role, the UK said its AI Safety Institute would lead that work, and Yoshua Bengio was asked to lead a State of the Science report. Korea agreed to co-host a virtual summit within six months and France to host the next in-person summit in a year.

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Frontier labs agreed to let governments test their next models before release, and 28 countries and the EU, including the US and China, accepted a shared statement on frontier AI risk.

When
1 Nov 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0014
Who
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, AI Safety Institute; Yoshua Bengio

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GOV.UK and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at GOV.UK

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextUK turns its Frontier AI Taskforce into a permanent AI Safety Institute

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WTA-N-2023-0014: “28 countries and the EU agree the Bletchley Declaration on frontier AI risks.” wheresthe.ai, 1 Nov 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-bletchley-declaration-2023-11/ (source: GOV.UK: The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023).

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