The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023
The Bletchley Declaration is an international agreement by countries attending the AI Safety Summit in November 2023 to address the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence. It emphasizes the need for safe, human-centric, trustworthy, and responsible AI development, with a specific focus on frontier AI risks and international cooperation. Participating nations resolve to build a shared scientific understanding of safety risks and develop complementary risk-based policies.
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Who issued it
Who it governs
Governments, international organizations, AI developers, and researchers should read this to understand the global consensus and cooperative agenda on AI safety.
What the document contains
The document covers the shared global opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence, a specific focus on frontier AI safety risks (such as misuse and control issues), and commitments to international scientific cooperation, risk-based domestic policies, and transparency from developers.
The declaration lacks binding legal obligations, specific regulatory enforcement mechanisms, and detailed technical definitions for AI terminology.
- Artificial intelligence offers enormous global opportunities but also poses significant and potentially catastrophic risks.
- Particular safety risks arise at the frontier of AI, especially regarding general-purpose foundation models, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and disinformation.
- Addressing the risks of AI requires international cooperation in an inclusive manner through existing fora and future AI Safety Summits.
- Actors developing frontier AI capabilities bear a particularly strong responsibility for ensuring their safety through testing, evaluations, and transparency.
- Participating countries agree to establish an internationally inclusive network of scientific research on frontier AI safety to support evidence-based policymaking.
How it scores
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Accountability
3/5Clear responsibility for AI outcomes
We encourage all relevant actors to provide context-appropriate transparency and accountability on their plans to measure, monitor and mitigate potentially harmful capabilities
Paragraph on transparency and accountability
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Fairness
2/5Non-discrimination and equitable treatment
the recognition that the protection of human rights, transparency and explainability, fairness, accountability, regulation, safety, appropriate human oversight, ethics, bias mitigation
Risks discussion
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Human Dignity
2/5Respect for the inherent worth of persons
AI should be designed, developed, deployed, and used, in a manner that is safe, in such a way as to be human-centric, trustworthy and responsible.
Introduction
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Human Oversight
2/5Humans remain in control of consequential decisions
the recognition that the protection of human rights, transparency and explainability, fairness, accountability, regulation, safety, appropriate human oversight, ethics, bias mitigation
Risks discussion
screening score · 2026-10-23
Privacy
2/5Protection of personal data and private life
the recognition that the protection of human rights, transparency and explainability, fairness, accountability, regulation, safety, appropriate human oversight, ethics, bias mitigation, privacy and data protection needs to be addressed.
Risks discussion
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Transparency
3/5Openness about how AI systems work and are used
We encourage all relevant actors to provide context-appropriate transparency and accountability on their plans to measure, monitor and mitigate potentially harmful capabilities
Paragraph on transparency and accountability
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Enforcement
0/5Consequences and compliance mechanisms with real force
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Impact Assessment
3/5Required assessment of an AI system's risks/impacts before or during use
actors developing frontier AI capabilities, in particular those AI systems which are unusually powerful and potentially harmful, have a particularly strong responsibility for ensuring the safety of these AI systems, including through systems for safety testing, through evaluations
Paragraph on frontier AI safety
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