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

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2023-11-01
- **Jurisdiction**: International organisations (OECD, UNESCO, UN, G7, ISO)
- **Instrument**: The Bletchley Declaration by countries attending the AI Safety Summit, 1–2 November 2023
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## 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 it means in practice

Signals that frontier-model safety evaluation would become a shared government priority; no direct obligations.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2023-11-01-bletchley-declaration
- **Official source**: 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
- **Source document**: The Bletchley Declaration
- **Published by**: UK Government
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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