Seoul Statement of Intent toward International Cooperation on AI Safety Science, AI Seoul Summit 2024 (Annex)

Summary

Leaders of ten countries and the EU affirm international coordination, based on openness, transparency and reciprocity, to advance the science of AI safety, and commend the creation or expansion of publicly backed institutions such as AI Safety Institutes. They intend to foster common scientific understanding, including through assessments such as the International AI Safety Report. Possible steps include sharing information about models' capabilities, limitations and risks, monitoring AI harms and safety incidents, exchanging or jointly creating evaluations and data sets, and shared technical resources. They aim to develop an international network to accelerate AI safety science.

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Status notes

Annex to the Seoul Declaration (INT-04), agreed at the AI Seoul Summit on 21 May 2024. It follows on from the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park (INT-03) and acknowledges the Safety Testing Chair's Statement of Session Outcomes from the Bletchley Leaders' Session.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/seoul-declaration-for-safe-innovative-and-inclusive-ai-ai-seoul-summit-2024/seoul-statement-of-intent-toward-international-cooperation-on-ai-safety-science-ai-seoul-summit-2024-annex

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

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1. 2026-10-17notes: Annex to the Seoul Declaration. It led to the International Network of AI Safety → Annex to the Seoul Declaration (INT-04), agreed at the AI Seoul Summit on 21 May — the note on the International Network of AI Safety Institutes is not supported by this record's stored files and was removed; the Bletchley link from paragraph 1 added2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17summary: Signatories commit to work together on AI safety science through publicly backed → Leaders of ten countries and the EU affirm international coordination, based on — corrected to the text: the leaders 'commend' institutes and 'express their shared intent' (they do not 'commit to work through' them); the listed steps are steps that 'may' be taken; the International AI Safety Report (paragraph 2.2) added2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

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

International Network of AI Safety Institutes International Network of AI Safety Institutes · Published (non-binding, current)

International AI Safety Report 2025 International AI Safety Report (AI Safety Summit process) · Superseded

Citation

Leaders of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, UK, US and the EU. Seoul Statement of Intent toward International Cooperation on AI Safety Science, AI Seoul Summit 2024 (Annex). 2024-05-21. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/seoul-declaration-for-safe-innovative-and-inclusive-ai-ai-seoul-summit-2024/seoul-statement-of-intent-toward-international-cooperation-on-ai-safety-science-ai-seoul-summit-2024-annex. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/INT-05/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 13:56:50 UTC, SHA-256 4f9bf25c7d9fa101ef26ea471d9140beacd4b5adb7bc4d62ba3fb6935c39fdeb. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record INT-05.

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