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The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities

Yoshua Bengio·Tegan Maharaj·Luke Ong·Stuart Russell·Dawn Song·Max Tegmark·Lan Xue·Ya-Qin Zhang·Stephen Casper·Wan Sie Lee·Sören Mindermann·Vanessa Wilfred·Vidhisha Balachandran·Fazl Barez·Michael Belinsky·Imane Bello·Malo Bourgon·Mark Brakel·Siméon Campos·Duncan Cass-Beggs·Jiahao Chen·Rumman Chowdhury·Kuan Chua Seah·Jeff Clune·Juntao Dai·Agnes Delaborde·Nouha Dziri·Francisco Eiras·Joshua Engels·Jinyu Fan·Adam Gleave·Noah Goodman·Fynn Heide·Johannes Heidecke·Dan Hendrycks·Cyrus Hodes·Bryan Low Kian Hsiang·Minlie Huang·Sami Jawhar·Wang Jingyu·Adam Tauman Kalai·Meindert Kamphuis·Mohan Kankanhalli·Subhash Kantamneni·Mathias Bonde Kirk·Thomas Kwa·Jeffrey Ladish·Kwok-Yan Lam·Wan Lee Sie·Taewhi Lee·Xiaojian Li·Jiajun Liu·Chaochao Lu·Yifan Mai·Richard Mallah·Julian Michael·Nick Moës·Simon Möller·Kihyuk Nam·Kwan Yee Ng·Mark Nitzberg·Besmira Nushi·Seán O hÉigeartaigh·Alejandro Ortega·Pierre Peigné·James Petrie·Benjamin Prud'Homme·Reihaneh Rabbany·Nayat Sanchez-Pi·Sarah Schwettmann·Buck Shlegeris·Saad Siddiqui·Aradhana Sinha·Martín Soto·Cheston Tan·Dong Ting·William Tjhi·Robert Trager·Brian Tse·Anthony Tung K. H.·John Willes·Denise Wong·Wei Xu·Rongwu Xu·Yi Zeng·HongJiang Zhang·Djordje Žikelić
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Abstract

Rapidly improving AI capabilities and autonomy hold significant promise of transformation, but are also driving vigorous debate on how to ensure that AI is safe, i.e., trustworthy, reliable, and secure. Building a trusted ecosystem is therefore essential -- it helps people embrace AI with confidence and gives maximal space for innovation while avoiding backlash. The "2025 Singapore Conference on AI (SCAI): International Scientific Exchange on AI Safety" aimed to support research in this space by bringing together AI scientists across geographies to identify and synthesise research priorities in AI safety. This resulting report builds on the International AI Safety Report chaired by Yoshua Bengio and backed by 33 governments. By adopting a defence-in-depth model, this report organises AI safety research domains into three types: challenges with creating trustworthy AI systems (Development), challenges with evaluating their risks (Assessment), and challenges with monitoring and intervening after deployment (Control).

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Yoshua Bengio, Tegan Maharaj, Luke Ong, Stuart Russell, Dawn Song, Max Tegmark, Lan Xue, Ya-Qin Zhang, Stephen Casper, Wan Sie Lee, Sören Mindermann, Vanessa Wilfred, Vidhisha Balachandran, Fazl Barez, Michael Belinsky, Imane Bello, Malo Bourgon, Mark Brakel, Siméon Campos, Duncan Cass-Beggs, Jiahao Chen, Rumman Chowdhury, Kuan Chua Seah, Jeff Clune, Juntao Dai, Agnes Delaborde, Nouha Dziri, Francisco Eiras, Joshua Engels, Jinyu Fan, Adam Gleave, Noah Goodman, Fynn Heide, Johannes Heidecke, Dan Hendrycks, Cyrus Hodes, Bryan Low Kian Hsiang, Minlie Huang, Sami Jawhar, Wang Jingyu, Adam Tauman Kalai, Meindert Kamphuis, Mohan Kankanhalli, Subhash Kantamneni, Mathias Bonde Kirk, Thomas Kwa, Jeffrey Ladish, Kwok-Yan Lam, Wan Lee Sie, Taewhi Lee, Xiaojian Li, Jiajun Liu, Chaochao Lu, Yifan Mai, Richard Mallah, Julian Michael, Nick Moës, Simon Möller, Kihyuk Nam, Kwan Yee Ng, Mark Nitzberg, Besmira Nushi, Seán O hÉigeartaigh, Alejandro Ortega, Pierre Peigné, James Petrie, Benjamin Prud'Homme, Reihaneh Rabbany, Nayat Sanchez-Pi, Sarah Schwettmann, Buck Shlegeris, Saad Siddiqui, Aradhana Sinha, Martín Soto, Cheston Tan, Dong Ting, William Tjhi, Robert Trager, Brian Tse, Anthony Tung K. H., John Willes, Denise Wong, Wei Xu, Rongwu Xu, Yi Zeng, HongJiang Zhang, Djordje Žikelić. 2025-06-25. The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20702

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