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28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety

Concerns Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit 2023)

Verified against the official source 26 Sep 2026 · reviewed by AI Policy Tracker (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review or legal advice) Open official source Context file

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

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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.

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