# The Bletchley Declaration by countries attending the AI Safety Summit, 1–2 November 2023

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: International organisations (OECD, UNESCO, UN, G7, ISO)
- **Instrument type**: Policy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: 28 countries and the European Union attending the AI Safety Summit hosted by the United Kingdom
- **Adopted**: 2023-11-01

## In brief

Bletchley Declaration (AI Safety Summit 2023) is a non-binding policy of International organisations (OECD, UNESCO, UN, G7, ISO), issued by 28 countries and the European Union attending the AI Safety Summit hosted by the United Kingdom. It was adopted on 1 November 2023. Political declaration; no obligations for organisations.

## Summary

Signed by countries including the United States, China, the EU, India, Japan and Brazil, the declaration recognises the opportunities of AI and the risks of frontier models, commits signatories to cooperate on identifying AI safety risks and building risk-based policies, and launched the summit series continued in Seoul (2024) and Paris (2025) and the network of AI safety institutes.

## Scope

Political declaration; no obligations for organisations.

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0100 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0100; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/bletchley-declaration-ai-safety-summit-2023
- **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 by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023
- **Published by**: UK Government (GOV.UK)
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "The Bletchley Declaration by countries attending the AI Safety Summit, 1–2 November 2023" [AIPT-POL-0100, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0100 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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