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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 Bhaskar Bhatt (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review or legal advice)
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In brief

28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety. Recorded on 1 November 2023. It concerns Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit 2023). 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.

Date
1 November 2023
Jurisdiction
International organisations (OECD, UNESCO, UN, G7, ISO)
Instrument
Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit 2023)
Impact
Routine
Status afterwards
Adopted
Official source
UK Government

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” [AIPT-CHG-0031, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0031 (accessed 12 November 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

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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.

BibTeX 
@misc{aipolicytracker2026_28countriesandtheeusignt,
  author       = {{AIPolicyTracker}},
  title        = {{28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2023-11-01-bletchley-declaration}},
  url          = {https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2023-11-01-bletchley-declaration},
  urldate      = {2026-11-12},
  note         = {Data licensed CC BY 4.0. Accessed 12 November 2026}
}

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