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Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods.
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Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)United Kingdom public R&D agency sponsoring AI-safety research and open-source coordination infrastructure.votes For and says:
To kickstart Phase 1 of this programme, we will be funding teams to develop open-source coordination infrastructure and perform fundamental research that moves us from empirical to theory-driven guarantees in agentic coordination.
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Andrew CharltonAustralian Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economyvotes For and says:
The Government has built in response: an Australian AI Safety Institute, up and running, staffed with world-class expertise, and already inside the engine rooms of frontier AI, testing the most powerful models on the planet.
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European CommissionEU's executive bodyvotes For and says:
The Commission will help establish an EU evaluation capacity to strengthen third-party assessment of AI capabilities and risks globally, supporting the regulatory function of the AI Office.
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Government of PakistanNational government of Pakistan, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.votes For and says:
We must therefore treat the capacity to evaluate and govern AI as an integral part to safety itself, supported through shared tools, pooled expertise, and cooperation across regions.
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Xinchen Hua LuUN AI panel member and researcher at CSIRO Australia.votes For and says:
The government industrial research organizations, they could share their current evaluation tools or methods, evidence through the common platforms.
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The 2026 Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research PrioritiesJuly 2026 international consensus report on AI safety research priorities produced by over 100 contributors from 13 countries.votes For and says:
Safety for open-weight models whose capabilities are nearing frontier closed models requires unique tools for open-weight model safety and ecosystem monitoring. [...] Accelerated public and private investment in research is required to keep pace with...
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Jan WehnerAI governance researcher at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, writing on AI safety and cybersecurity.votes For and says:
To avoid losing visibility into cutting-edge AI cyberattack capabilities exactly when it matters most, I argue governments should fund independent threat-intelligence collection and sharing, develop AI-specific forensic capabilities, build the capaci...
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AI Security Institute (AISI)UK government AI safety institutevotes For and says:
By open-sourcing not only Inspect, but also our methods and infrastructure where we can, we hope to help researchers, organisations, and other evaluators stand up rigorous evaluation capability without starting from zero.
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The AI Security InstituteUK government research organisation focused on AI safety and securityvotes For and says:
By open-sourcing not only Inspect, but also our methods and infrastructure where we can, we hope to help researchers, organisations, and other evaluators stand up rigorous evaluation capability without starting from zero. We hope that the Engineering...
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Mischa SpiegelmockTechnical staff member at METR working on frontier model evaluationsvotes For and says:
Absolutely central to METR's evaluations is Inspect, which we've built our own open source cloud eval platform on top of, along with actively contributing to the Inspect codebase to run larger and more complex evaluations.
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JJ AllaireFounder and Executive Chairman of Posit; creator of Inspectvotes For and says:
I created Inspect because I wanted to provide a strong technical foundation for governments, researchers, and labs to collaborate on testing and understanding frontier models. I am thrilled to have seen so many organisations adopt it, as well as to h...
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Innovation, Science and Economic Development CanadaGovernment of Canada department responsible for innovation, science, and economic development.votes For and says:
Canada will invest $50 million to expand the capabilities of the Canadian AI Safety Institute to track emerging AI risks, advance technical research, and to conduct transparent evaluations of AI models.
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Jack CableCEO and co-founder of Corridor; former CISA Secure by Design initiative lead and cybersecurity expert.votes For and says:
The challenge is especially acute for open source software, since it’s a public good. Open source software underpins every software service we rely upon, including across critical infrastructure and the Federal government. A string of recent incident...
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Camille FrançoisPresident and CEO of Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST)votes For and says:
The safety problems that matter most are often the ones no one has been able to solve in the open. Safety guardrails for youth resilience is a clear example: the need is global, but the tools are scarce.
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Anne Le HénanffFrench Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs.votes For and says:
Safety tools cannot remain exclusive to the largest companies; they must be open, auditable, and collectively improved—serving as a common good for the benefit of society. This is how we will build trustworthy AI that truly protects our children, our...
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Evan SolomonCanada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Liberal MP for Toronto Centrevotes For and says:
By building safety tools in the open, this partnership will help organizations of every size adopt AI more responsibly. It strengthens trust, supports Canadian leadership in safe AI, and helps ensure the safeguards people rely on are transparent, ver...
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G7 Digital and Technology Ministerial DeclarationCollective ministerial declaration of the Group of Seven on digital and technology policy, including international AI governance.votes For and says:
Such discussions may also contribute to enhance the French Presidency’s Meta-detector for AI-generated content, an open source tool that aggregates multiple synthetic content detectors, enabling cross-referenced assessments.
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National Research Council CanadaCanada's federal research and development organization.votes For and says:
In collaboration with the Vector Institute, we created new extensions to Inspect AI—the leading framework for AI safety evaluation—that make testing more transparent, reproducible and easier to share across teams.
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Glen MessengerGoogle Kubernetes Engine contributor writing on open-source LLM safety toolingvotes For and says:
For organizations deploying open-weight models, a critical question emerges: how do you know the model you downloaded is safe to run? We believe defensive security tools should be widely available. AMS represents our contribution to a safer AI ecosys...
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IDAIS-London StatementNamed 2026 consensus statement of the International Dialogues on AI Safety (IDAIS) London meeting, addressing AI-enabled cyber and biological risks.votes For and says:
Governments should fund sustained safety research to strengthen these safeguards over time and enable information-sharing of best practices between companies.
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Robert D. AtkinsonInnovation economist; ITIF presidentvotes For and says:
I don’t think it’s going to kill us. At the same time, I do think it’s important for the federal government to seriously fund AI safety research. We need to know a lot more about how the models work.
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National Science FoundationUnited States federal agency that funds research and publishes official science explainers.votes For and says:
PESOSE supports enhancements to the safety, security, and privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (OSE) by addressing significant vulnerabilities, both technical and socio-technical, to improve the resistance of the ecosystem against threats.
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Government of the United KingdomUnited Kingdom central governmentvotes For and says:
Some £27 million will now be made available through the fund, supporting research efforts to ensure AI systems work as they’re supposed to, with £5.6 million coming from OpenAI, and additional support from Microsoft and others.
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House of Representatives of the PhilippinesLower chamber of the Congress of the Philippines.votes For and says:
There is hereby created an AI Safety Research Fund, to be administered by the BAIS and funded through annual General Appropriations. The fund shall support: (a) Independent safety and bias evaluations; (b) Grants for red-teaming and adversarial testi...
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Federation of American ScientistsUS science policy nonprofitvotes For and says:
Build government AI–cyber capacity and translation infrastructure. Strengthen government capacity to evaluate, oversee, and respond to AI-enabled cyber risks by investing in technical staffing, institutional authority, and translation functions [...]...
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Adam BeaumontUK AI Security Institute directorvotes For and says:
[...] biosecurity red‑teaming [...] revealed [...] vulnerabilities. We’ve expanded the world’s most widely used government-backed evaluation tools. These open tools [...] make safety science accessible at scale.
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Ian HogarthUK AI Safety Institute chairvotes For and says:
[...] we are open sourcing our Inspect platform. [...] having a shared, accessible approach to evaluations. [...] a building block for AI Safety Institutes, research organisations, and academia.
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Michelle DonelanBritish Conservative politicianvotes For and says:
I have cleared [...] Inspect [...] to be open sourced. [...] to make AI safe. [...] safe AI will improve lives tangibly.
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Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)Singapore digital regulatorvotes For and says:
[...] open-source community to develop AI testing tools to enable responsible AI. [...] bring benchmarking, red- teaming, and testing baselines together. [...] manage LLM deployment risks via benchmarking and red teaming.
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Government of CanadaFederal government of Canadavotes For and says:
The Canadian and Korean AI Safety Institutes have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen international cooperation on artificial intelligence safety. Through this collaboration, the institutes will exchange information on AI technologies,...
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Carsten WildbergerGerman Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization.votes For and says:
We welcome the growing international community of public-sector institutions dedicated to AI security, and we intend our joint work to contribute to, and draw from, that wider effort.
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Valérie PisanoPresident and CEO of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute.votes For and says:
AI safety should not be left to a handful of large companies making trade-offs behind closed doors. Partnering with ROOST lets our researchers work on harms with real public stakes, and commits us to putting what we build where any provider can use i...
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House Committee on AppropriationsU.S. House Appropriations Committeevotes For and says:
The Committee directs NIST to conduct a multi-stakeholder process to examine security risks associated with open-source artificial intelligence models such as model integrity, malicious modification, supply chain compromise, and data leakage. As part...
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Kanishka NarayanUK Minister for AI and Online Safety; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technologyvotes For and says:
The UK, through AISI, has developed the world’s most widely used government-backed evaluation tools. Inspect, InspectSandbox, InspectCyber, and our latest release, ControlArena, are now being used by governments, companies, and academics around the w...
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Craig BurkhardtDeputy Director of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.votes For and says:
We are inviting technically capable organizations to join the NIST AI Consortium to address the challenges associated with the development and deployment of AI. To encourage more extraordinary AI technological innovations, NIST is seeking to expand i...
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Government of SingaporeNational government of Singapore, publishing the National AI Strategy and AI governance policy.votes For and says:
Singapore launched the AI Verify Foundation in 2023 to harness the collective contributions of the global open-source community to develop AI testing tools. This includes Project Moonshot, an open-source tool to bring benchmarking and red teaming tog...
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Mia GlaeseVice President of Research at OpenAI.votes For and says:
As AI systems become more capable and more autonomous, alignment has to keep pace. The hardest problems won’t be solved by any one organisation working in isolation—we need independent teams testing different assumptions and approaches.
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David LammyUK Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairsvotes For and says:
AI offers us huge opportunities, but we will always be clear-eyed on the need to ensure safety is baked into it from the outset.
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Bruce SchneierSecurity technologist and authorvotes For and says:
Corporate AI often prioritizes profit over public good, and critical capabilities (safety, security, equitable access) may never be developed privately.
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Technical Staff at the Center for AI Standards and InnovationNIST CAISI technical staff collectivevotes For and says:
Publicly available evaluation frameworks provide an important foundation [...] CAISI has open-sourced our improvements [...] with the UK AI Security Institute through red teaming.
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