Security News > 2024 > May > AI Seoul Summit: 4 Key Takeaways on AI Safety Standards and Regulations

One of the key aims was to move progress towards the formation of a global set of AI safety standards and regulations.

U.K. Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan said in a closing statement, "The agreements we have reached in Seoul mark the beginning of Phase Two of our AI Safety agenda, in which the world takes concrete steps to become more resilient to the risks of AI and begins a deepening of our understanding of the science that will underpin a shared approach to AI safety in the future."

World leaders of 10 nations and the E.U. have agreed to collaborate on research into AI safety by forming a network of AI Safety Institutes.

Institutions that will form the network will be similar to the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute, which was launched at November's AI Safety Summit.

Donelan credited the "Bletchley effect" - the formation of the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute at the AI Safety Summit - for the formation of the international network.

The AI Safety Institutes will have to demonstrate their progress in AI safety testing and evaluation by next year's AI Impact Summit in France, so they can move forward with discussions around regulation.

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