Digital Trust Centre designated as Singapore's AI Safety Institute

Summary

Designates the Digital Trust Centre, which IMDA had appointed Nanyang Technological University to establish in June 2022, as Singapore's AI Safety Institute. Building on the Centre's work, the AISI is to address gaps in global AI safety science using Singapore's work in AI evaluation and testing, pull together the national research ecosystem, collaborate with other countries' AISIs and give science-based input to AI governance. Its initial research areas are testing and evaluation; safe model design, development and deployment; content assurance; and governance and policy. IMDA is the overall government agency for the AISI and the Centre does its technical work.

Safety topics

Status notes

IMDA's factsheet announcing the designation carries the dateline Singapore, 22 May 2024; IMDA last updated the page on 10 Oct 2024. The Digital Trust Centre was set up with initial funding of S$50 million to drive research and innovation in trust technologies, with AI testing and privacy-enhancing technologies among its research areas; its work is funded by a $50 million grant from the National Research Foundation and IMDA starting from 1 Oct 2022. At the designation, Singapore was in discussions with the US and UK AISIs on collaboration, particularly on generative AI evaluations, and presented the designation as an extension of work such as expanding AI Verify to test generative AI safety. The AISI's technical testing now covers multilingual and agentic AI, partly jointly with other members of the international Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and Science (NAAIMES), and it studies societal impacts such as emotional dependency.

Sources

Open the official source https://imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/factsheets/2024/digital-trust-centre

Secondary source: https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-18verification.level: A → B — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18notes: IMDA's factsheet announcing the designation carries the dateline Singapore, 22 M → IMDA's factsheet announcing the designation carries the dateline Singapore, 22 M — the Centre's set-up funding and early research focus, the 2024 discussions with the US and UK AISIs and the link to expanding AI Verify added from the factsheet; the current testing and societal-impact work kept from the AISI page2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18safety_topics: ["safety institute", "evaluation & testing", "international cooperation"] → ["safety institute", "evaluation & testing", "international cooperation", "resea — research priorities added: the factsheet sets the AISI's initial research areas2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18summary: Designates the Digital Trust Centre, a national centre hosted at Nanyang Technol → Designates the Digital Trust Centre, which IMDA had appointed Nanyang Technologi — rewritten from the factsheet's body, which the text layer now includes: the AISI's tasks as the designation states them, its four initial research areas and the Centre's set-up in June 2022; IMDA's role and the Centre's technical role stay from the AISI page; the current work moved to the notes2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-18notes: Announced around the AI Seoul Summit; the NTU Digital Trust Centre news item is → IMDA's factsheet announcing the designation carries the dateline Singapore, 22 M — the factsheet's own dateline replaces version 1's statement that it is undated; IMDA's partnership with the Centre, the Centre's funding and NAAIMES added from the AISI page; the Seoul Summit context and the UK and EU arrangements rest on no stored file of this record and were removed2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
6. 2026-10-18safety_topics: ["safety institute", "evaluation & testing", "deepfakes & synthetic media", "int → ["safety institute", "evaluation & testing", "international cooperation"] — deepfakes & synthetic media dropped: it rested on version 1's 'content assurance' focus area, which no stored text of this record shows2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
7. 2026-10-18summary: Designates the Digital Trust Centre (set up by IMDA and NTU in June 2022) as Sin → Designates the Digital Trust Centre, a national centre hosted at Nanyang Technol — rewritten from the Singapore AISI's About page stored in this run; version 1's four focus areas and the June 2022 set-up are not in a stored text layer of this record2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
8. 2026-10-18secondary_url: – → https://sgaisi.sg/about-us/ — the record had none; the AISI's About page, stored in this run, is the stored source for the mandate and roles2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), with Nanyang Technological University's Digital Trust Centre. Digital Trust Centre designated as Singapore's AI Safety Institute. 2024-05-22. https://imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/factsheets/2024/digital-trust-centre. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level B). Local copy archive/SG-03/2026-10-18/official.html retrieved 2026-10-18 03:22:39 UTC, SHA-256 c1eb2888f264d057cb07caf31495c28a7a3f62f01282becc87254d017f0890c1. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record SG-03.

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