The UK believes that the dangers of frontier AI risks are increasingly urgent. That is why the UK has convened the inaugural AI Safety Summit. Over two days the Summit brought together approximately 150 representatives from across the globe, including a diverse set of government leaders and ministers, multilateral fora, industry, academia and civil society leaders. Countries attending agreed to the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety, a landmark agreement recognising a shared consensus on the opportunities and risks of AI, and the need for collaborative action on frontier AI safety. Alongside discussions on risk, the Summit considered how we can unlock the opportunities that AI brings and showcased how safe development will enable AI to be used for good globally. The UK, alongside Canada, the USA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other partners, announced £80 million for a new AI for development collaboration, working with innovators and institutions across Africa to support the development of responsible AI. DSIT also announced a new £100m fund for an AI Life Sciences Accelerator Mission to bring cutting edge AI to bear on some of the most pressing health challenges facing society. DSIT recognises the value of discussing the protection of democratic values. At the Summit there was significant consideration on the risks from the integration of frontier AI into society, including the broad range of societal harms which may be created and discussion on how disinformation and misinformation might challenge democracy. The impact of AI on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, continues to be recognised as a key prioritiy and t e UK is pleased to be working with other nations at the Council of Europe to negotiate the first intergovernmental treaty on AI, with respect to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, recognising that both the technology and their shared values are global in nature. The UK will continue to work with like-minded international partners on threats to democracy and elections, including threats from state actors, and those threats enhanced by AI. During the Summit, world leaders representing Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the USA, and the UK, alongside industry leaders, recognised the importance of bringing together governments and actors developing AI within their countries, to collaborate on testing the next generation of AI models against a range of critical national security, safety and societal risks. The plan involves testing models both pre- and post-deployment, and a role for governments in testing, particularly for critical national security, safety and society harms. As an initial contribution to this new collaboration, the UK detailed its launch of the world’s first AI Safety Institute, which will build public sector capability to conduct safety testing and research into AI safety. In exploring all the risks, from social harms including bias and misinformation, through to the most extreme risks of all, including the potential for loss of control, the government will seek to make the work of the Safety Institute widely available, and has committed to work in partnership with other countries’ institutes, including the US. The Summit is only the first part of an urgent global conversation on frontier AI safety. The Government therefore welcomes agreement from the Republic of Korea and France to continue the conversation in future Summits, and we look forward to continuing work with them and other international partners on this crucial topic.