UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understanding is a International treaty from global, adopted on 2024-04-01 and effective 2024-04-01. Current status: In force. First binding bilateral on frontier-AI safety. Commits both AISIs to coordinated pre-deployment evaluations, red-team data sharing, methodological alignment on capability elicitation, and joint exercises across at least one major frontier-model release. Precedent for the broader AISI network (US, UK, JP, SG, CA, FR, KR) consolidated at the Seoul Summit; cited in Seoul Declaration §5-7 operationalising international coordination.
Scope and obligations
First binding bilateral on frontier-AI safety. Commits both AISIs to coordinated pre-deployment evaluations, red-team data sharing, methodological alignment on capability elicitation, and joint exercises across at least one major frontier-model release. Precedent for the broader AISI network (US, UK, JP, SG, CA, FR, KR) consolidated at the Seoul Summit; cited in Seoul Declaration §5-7 operationalising international coordination.
UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understanding addresses 2 contested AI-governance topics explicitly, 2 via general principles,.
Topics governed
- governsFoundation Models / GPAI— MoU scope is frontier AI evaluation
- implicitTransparency Obligations— Information sharing between AISIs; not public-facing transparency obligations
- implicitCatastrophic & Existential Risk— Joint evaluation scope encompasses CBRN + autonomy uplift questions; MoU text does not enumerate explicit thresholds
- governsInternational Coordination— MoU is the operative bilateral; precedent for the broader AISI network
Cross-jurisdiction comparison
How peer instruments treat the topics UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understanding 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 | SEOUL-2024 | 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 | WH-VOLUNTARY-2023 | SG-MODEL-AI-2024 | JP-METI-AI-2024 |
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| Foundation Models / GPAI | governs | governs | silent | implicit | governs | governs | implicit | implicit | silent | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs | implicit | governs | implicit | silent | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs | governs |
| International Coordination | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | silent | governs | governs | silent | silent | silent | silent | governs | governs | implicit | implicit | implicit | implicit | implicit | governs | governs |
How to cite this article
APA 7
Policy Window. (2024). UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understanding [Wiki article]. https://policywindow.org/wiki/uk-us-aisi-mou
Chicago 17
Policy Window. 2024. "UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understanding." Wiki article. https://policywindow.org/wiki/uk-us-aisi-mou.
BibTeX
@misc{policywindow-uk-us-aisi-mou,
title = {UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understanding},
author = {Policy Window},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {UK-US AISI MoU (Apr 2024)},
url = {https://policywindow.org/wiki/uk-us-aisi-mou},
note = {Primary source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/memorandum-of-understanding-between-the-ai-safety-institutes-of-the-united-kingdom-and-the-united-states}
}Related instruments
References
- UK-US AISI MoU (Apr 2024)
- MoU scope is frontier AI evaluation
- Information sharing between AISIs; not public-facing transparency obligations
- Joint evaluation scope encompasses CBRN + autonomy uplift questions; MoU text does not enumerate explicit thresholds
- MoU is the operative bilateral; precedent for the broader AISI network
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