Singapore, Microsoft team up to build reliable AI governance framework

SINGAPORE, June 12 — Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Microsoft Corporation have established a partnership to deepen collaboration on artificial intelligence (AI) safety and security.

In a joint statement, the two organisations said the collaboration reflects their commitment to ensuring AI development remains safe, secure and trustworthy.

Under the memorandum of understanding signed on Friday, IMDA and Microsoft will collaborate in three key areas, aimed at building a trusted ecosystem that fosters innovation while ensuring the safe and reliable development and deployment of technology.

These include technical and research collaborations on AI safety and security, facilitation of information sharing, and development of a policy framework for trusted access to frontier AI models.

IMDA deputy chief executive Kiren Kumar said the collaboration on AI safety with Microsoft demonstrates how government and industry can partner to drive and scale good governance for the public good.

“This goes beyond developing policy frameworks towards jointly building benchmarks, tools and other evaluation methods, concretely advancing the state of evaluation sciences in an area of increasing importance,” he said on Friday.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Chief Responsible AI Officer Natasha Crampton noted that the partnership combines government insights with Microsoft’s technical and operational experience to strengthen AI evaluation, address emerging risks and build greater trust in advanced AI systems. — Bernama