Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AI is a Voluntary code from global, adopted on 2024-05-22 and effective 2024-05-22. Current status: In force. Bletchley follow-up. 16 frontier-AI-developer companies signed Frontier AI Safety Commitments alongside. Introduces measurable capability-evaluation expectations and pre-deployment thresholds; first instrument to formalise frontier-lab voluntary commitments as a governance category.
Scope and obligations
Bletchley follow-up. 16 frontier-AI-developer companies signed Frontier AI Safety Commitments alongside. Introduces measurable capability-evaluation expectations and pre-deployment thresholds; first instrument to formalise frontier-lab voluntary commitments as a governance category.
Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AI addresses 4 contested AI-governance topics explicitly, 1 via general principles,.
Topics governed
- governsFoundation Models / GPAI— Declaration + accompanying Frontier AI Safety Commitments (16 signatory companies)
- implicitCompute-Threshold Reporting— Safety Commitments invoke capability thresholds; compute is one proxy
- governsTransparency Obligations— Declaration §4 + Commitments §3 (publish safety frameworks)
- governsCatastrophic & Existential Risk— Frontier AI Safety Commitments §1: identify thresholds for severe risks pre-deployment
- governsInternational Coordination— Declaration §5-7 (AISI network, follow-up summits)
Cross-jurisdiction comparison
How peer instruments treat the topics Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AI governs.
| Topic | EU-AIA-2024 | US-EO-14110 | US-EO-14179 | UK-WHITEPAPER-2023 | CN-GENAI-2023 | G7-HIROSHIMA | OECD-AI-PRIN | COE-AI-CONV | UN-RES-2024 | NIST-AI-RMF | BLETCHLEY-2023 | NIST-AI-RMF-GENAI | CA-SB-1047 | IN-DPDP-2023 | BR-AIBILL-2024 | ASEAN-AI-GUIDE-2024 | AU-AI-STRATEGY-2024 | ANTHROPIC-RSP-2024 | OPENAI-PREPAREDNESS-2023 | DEEPMIND-FSF-2024 | META-FRONTIER-2024 | UK-US-AISI-MOU-2024 | WH-VOLUNTARY-2023 | SG-MODEL-AI-2024 | JP-METI-AI-2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation Models / GPAI | governs | governs | silent | implicit | governs | governs | implicit | implicit | silent | governs | governs | governs | governs | implicit | governs | implicit | silent | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs |
| Transparency Obligations | governs | implicit | silent | implicit | conflicts | governs | governs | governs | implicit | governs | implicit | governs | implicit | implicit | governs | governs | silent | governs | implicit | implicit | governs | implicit | governs | governs | governs |
| Catastrophic & Existential Risk | implicit | governs | silent | implicit | silent | governs | silent | silent | implicit | implicit | governs | governs | governs | silent | governs | silent | silent | governs | governs | governs | governs | implicit | implicit | silent | silent |
| International Coordination | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | governs | silent | silent | silent | silent | governs | governs | implicit | implicit | implicit | implicit | governs | implicit | governs | governs |
How to cite this article
APA 7
Policy Window. (2024). Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AI [Wiki article]. https://policywindow.org/wiki/seoul-declaration
Chicago 17
Policy Window. 2024. "Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AI." Wiki article. https://policywindow.org/wiki/seoul-declaration.
BibTeX
@misc{policywindow-seoul-declaration,
title = {Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AI},
author = {Policy Window},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {Seoul Declaration (AI Seoul Summit, May 2024)},
url = {https://policywindow.org/wiki/seoul-declaration},
note = {Primary source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/seoul-ministerial-declaration-on-safe-innovative-and-inclusive-ai}
}Related instruments
- EU AI Act · EU
- Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI · US
- G7 Hiroshima AI Process Code of Conduct · G7
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework · US
- Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety · global
- NIST AI RMF Generative AI Profile · US
- California SB-1047: Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier AI Models Act · US
- Brazil AI Bill (PL 2338/2023) · BR
- ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics · ASEAN
- Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) v2 · US
- OpenAI Preparedness Framework · US
- Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework · US
- Meta Frontier AI Framework · US
- UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understanding · global
- White House Voluntary AI Commitments · US
- Singapore Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI · SG
- Japan METI AI Guidelines for Business · JP
References
- Seoul Declaration (AI Seoul Summit, May 2024)
- Declaration + accompanying Frontier AI Safety Commitments (16 signatory companies)
- Safety Commitments invoke capability thresholds; compute is one proxy
- Declaration §4 + Commitments §3 (publish safety frameworks)
- Frontier AI Safety Commitments §1: identify thresholds for severe risks pre-deployment
- Declaration §5-7 (AISI network, follow-up summits)
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