Lever 6 · Updated 2026-05-03
🌐 Lever 6 · Diplomacy
International Governance + Foreign Capital + Standard-Setting
Lever Definition
Get foreign firms to base their AI governance HQ in Singapore
Take: Punching at G7-level AI governance influence with 0.07% of the world's population — the least replicable part of Singapore's strategy.
Projects
Global Frameworks Initiated by Singapore
ISO/IEC 42119-8 Generative AI Testing Standard
IMDA / Enterprise Singapore · 35+ national bodies, 250+ experts (17th SC 42 plenary, Apr 2026)
World's first proposed international standard for testing generative AI; benchmarking + red teaming
Singapore AI Safety Institute (AISI)
IMDA · S$10M/year
Frontier AI safety research + coordinating centre for the Singapore Consensus
Singapore Consensus on AI Safety
IMDA / AISI · 11 countries signed (including US and China)
Rare in bringing both the US and China into a single AI safety document
International Scientific Exchange (ISESEA) I + II
IMDA / AISI · 2024 + 2026
Global AI safety scientific exchange convened alongside ICLR
IMDA × Humane Intelligence Multicultural Red-Teaming Challenge
IMDA · Global red-teaming challenge
Standardizes global red-teaming evaluation methods
ASEAN Region
ASEAN Working Group on AI Governance (WG-AI)
IMDA · Regional working group
Singapore serves as secretariat
ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics
ASEAN Digital Ministers / IMDA · Adopted by 10 countries
Based on Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework
ASEAN Hanoi Declaration 2026
ASEAN Digital Ministers · 2026
Deepening cooperation among regional digital ministers
Bilateral Cooperation
US-Singapore Smart Cities + Digital Economic Cooperation
MFA · Bilateral cooperation framework
Smart Cities Programme + Digital Economic Cooperation Roadmap
ROK Bilateral AI Cooperation
MFA · Cooperation with South Korea
Bilateral agreement on AI technology and governance
EU-ASEAN AI Governance Dialogue
MFA / IMDA · EU × ASEAN
Inter-regional AI governance dialogue mechanism
Military / Security
REAIM Asia Regional Consultations
MFA / MINDEF · Co-hosted by Singapore
Extending the REAIM dialogue to Asia
REAIM Seoul Summit 2024
MFA · Co-hosted by 5 countries
"Blueprint for Action" — the first operational multilateral document on military AI governance
Bletchley / Seoul / Paris AI Safety Summits
MFA · Participated in all
Sustained voice across all three AI safety summits