Seoul Declaration for safe, innovative and inclusive AI by participants attending the Leaders' Session: AI Seoul Summit, 21 May 2024

Summary

Leaders of ten countries and the EU treat AI safety, innovation and inclusivity as inter-related goals and call for interoperable AI governance frameworks, in line with a risk-based approach, for the safe, secure and trustworthy design, development, deployment and use of AI. They support creating or expanding AI safety institutes, research programmes and supervisory bodies and networks between them, welcome the annexed Seoul Statement of Intent on AI safety science, recognise the particular responsibility of organisations developing frontier AI, note the Frontier AI Safety Commitments and back the operationalisation of the Hiroshima Process Code of Conduct.

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Status notes

Agreed at the Leaders' Session of the AI Seoul Summit on 21 May 2024. The summit, co-hosted by the UK and the Republic of Korea on 21 and 22 May 2024, built on the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park (INT-03). The Seoul Statement of Intent toward International Cooperation on AI Safety Science (INT-05) is annexed to it. It looks forward to the third gathering, the AI Action Summit in France (INT-01).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/seoul-declaration-for-safe-innovative-and-inclusive-ai-ai-seoul-summit-2024

Secondary source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/seoul-declaration-for-safe-innovative-and-inclusive-ai-ai-seoul-summit-2024/seoul-declaration-for-safe-innovative-and-inclusive-ai-by-participants-attending-the-leaders-session-ai-seoul-summit-21-may-2024

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History

1. 2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "seoul-statement-of-intent-ai-safety-science", "id": "INT-05"}, {"slug → [{"slug": "seoul-statement-of-intent-ai-safety-science", "id": "INT-05"}, {"slug — two-way link added: INT-01 link(s) to INT-042026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17notes: Adopted at the virtual Leaders' Session on 21 May 2024. The Seoul Statement of I → Agreed at the Leaders' Session of the AI Seoul Summit on 21 May 2024. The summit — 'virtual' removed (not in the stored files); the co-hosts and summit dates from the GOV.UK topical event page; Bletchley precedent and the France summit from the text2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17summary: Leaders treat AI safety, innovation and inclusivity as linked goals. They endors → Leaders of ten countries and the EU treat AI safety, innovation and inclusivity — corrected to what paragraphs 2 to 4 say: the declaration supports operationalising the Hiroshima Code of Conduct and notes the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, but does not present them as 'ways to put interoperable governance into practice'; supervisory bodies and the annexed Statement of Intent added2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Seoul Statement of Intent on AI Safety Science AI Seoul Summit (2024) · Published (non-binding, current)

Seoul Ministerial Statement AI Seoul Summit (2024) · Published (non-binding, current)

Frontier AI Safety Commitments AI Seoul Summit (2024) · Published (non-binding, current)

Bletchley Declaration AI Safety Summit (Bletchley, 2023) · Published (non-binding, current)

G7 Hiroshima Code of Conduct G7 · Published (non-binding, current)

Paris AI Action Summit Statement AI Action Summit (Paris, 2025) · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Leaders of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, UK, US and the EU (AI Seoul Summit, co-hosted by the Republic of Korea and the UK). Seoul Declaration for safe, innovative and inclusive AI by participants attending the Leaders' Session: AI Seoul Summit, 21 May 2024. 2024-05-21. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/seoul-declaration-for-safe-innovative-and-inclusive-ai-ai-seoul-summit-2024. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/INT-04/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 13:56:52 UTC, SHA-256 070aa3dfbe56595765a7ca9f282e504f8007aea0df4fb550884a77b2cc65274f. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record INT-04.

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