Singapore announces new AI safety initiatives

26 February 2025

During the AI Action Summit held in Paris, France, from 10 to 11 February 2025, Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo announced three new initiatives that reflect Singapore’s commitment in rallying industry and international partners towards concrete actions that advance AI safety:

  • Launch of the Global AI Assurance Pilot (“Pilot”): The Pilot is a global initiative to help codify emerging norms and best practices around technical testing of generative AI (“Gen AI”) applications. The Pilot will pair AI assurance and testing providers with organisations deploying Gen AI applications, focusing on technical testing of the real-life application. The Pilot will use lessons learnt from specific examples to create generalisable insights on “what and how to test”.
  • Release of the Joint Testing Report with Japan under the AI Safety Institute (“AISI”) Network (“Joint Testing Report”): The Joint Testing Report aims to make large language models (“LLMs”) safer in different linguistic environments through assessing if guardrails hold up in non-English settings. As co-lead of the Testing and Evaluation Track under the AISI network, Singapore brought together global linguistic and technical experts from the AISI network to conduct tests across 10 languages (Cantonese, English, Farsi, French, Japanese, Kiswahili, Korean, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Telugu) and five harm categories (violent crime, non-violent crime, IP, privacy, and jailbreaking) to build up evaluation capabilities and methodological standards. The joint testing exercise expands on global efforts to make models safer in different linguistic environments, given current English-centric training and testing which potentially leaves gaps in non-English safeguards.
  • Publication of the Singapore AI Safety Red Teaming Challenge Evaluation Report 2025 (“Red Teaming Report”): The Red Teaming Report aims to provide an understanding of how LLMs perform with regard to different languages and cultures in the Asia Pacific region, and if the safeguards hold up in these contexts. It also sets out a consistent methodology to facilitate testing across diverse languages and cultures, as no one party can accomplish that alone.

Reference materials 

The following materials are available on the Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (“IMDA”) website www.imda.gov.sg and AI Verify Foundation website www.aiverifyfoundation.sg: