28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety
What changed?
At the first AI Safety Summit, signatories including the US, China and the EU agreed to cooperate on identifying and managing frontier-AI safety risks, launching the summit series and the network of AI safety institutes.
What does it mean in practice?
Signals that frontier-model safety evaluation would become a shared government priority; no direct obligations.
Official source
The Bletchley DeclarationUK Government · 1 Nov 2023
Cite this record
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety”. https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2023-11-01-bletchley-declaration (accessed 27 September 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
Cite the official text alongside it: The Bletchley Declaration, UK Government, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023.
Related changes
UN General Assembly adopts its first resolution on safe, secure and trustworthy AI
ISO/IEC 42001, the first AI management-system standard, is published
G7 leaders publish the Hiroshima Process code of conduct for advanced AI developers
UNESCO member states adopt the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI
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