{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-01-bletchley-ai-safety-summit/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-01-bletchley-ai-safety-summit/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2023-11-01-bletchley-ai-safety-summit","date":"2023-11-01","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration","deck":null,"takeaway":"The UK hosted the first global AI Safety Summit on 1–2 November 2023; 28 countries plus the EU, including the US and China, signed the Bletchley Declaration on frontier AI risks.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"The Bletchley Declaration (GOV.UK)","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"gov.uk"},{"n":2,"title":"Wikipedia: AI Safety Summit","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Safety_Summit","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"en.wikipedia.org"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["UK Government"],"title":"Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration","summary":"The UK hosted the first global AI Safety Summit on 1–2 November 2023; 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