Workshops, roundtables, and trainings hosted with partner organisations, alongside public panels and briefings
An interactive simulation session adapted for philanthropic and corporate leaders working on climate, public health, food security and poverty, along with corporate social impact leads.
AI Safety Asia is organising a tabletop exercise on Diplomatic Responses to an AI-enabled Incident necessitating regional coordination, on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok.
AI Safety Asia and Windfall Trust are hosting Preparing Asia for Advanced AI: A Scenario Exercise on Jobs, Growth and Resilience, a featured session of AsiaXchange 2026.
We conducted a tabletop exercise with Global Solutions Initiative, "Responses to a Regional AI-Enabled Incident." attended by over 20 participants from governments and permanent missions, UN bodies, the World Bank and other multilateral organisations, think tanks and industry.
Bringing together decision-makers, experts, and builders to address how middle powers can exercise collective agency in AI governance.
AI Safety Asia facilitated the PECC Tabletop Exercise alongside the 2026 PECC AI Event, held on the margins of APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting 3. The event brought together policymakers and experts from across the Asia-Pacific to explore how the region can prepare for emerging AI-enabled disruptions.
AI Safety Asia and Chatham House, in partnership with University of Geneva, hosted a Tabletop Exercise on Diplomatic Responses to a Regional AI-Enabled Incident on the sidelines of the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
A closed-door roundtable on the state of AI in engineering biology in the Philippines across health, agriculture and energy, with senior figures from government, academia, think tanks and industry. Around 60 people joined in person and online to test the mapping study’s early findings.
AISA’s programme at the first global AI summit held in the Global South: a main-summit panel on AI crisis diplomacy, a panel on AI at scale, a side event on AI and biosecurity in Asia, and the launch reception for the International AI Safety Report 2026.
Co-hosted with Chatham House. What open-weight models mean for national capability, who they empower, and how sovereignty claims are reshaping the politics of access to frontier systems.
Part of Impact Dialogues: Road to the India AI Impact Summit 2026. A discussion of how leadership on advanced AI risk can be shared rather than concentrated, and what inclusion requires of the institutions that set the agenda.
AISA trained legislators at The Role of Parliament in Shaping the Future of Responsible AI, the international conference convened by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNDP with the Parliament of Malaysia, 28 to 30 November 2025.
South Korea’s AI governance and regulation, industry ecosystem, startup landscape and biotechnology policy, with panellists from Seoul National University School of Law, TechFrontier, AIM Intelligence and the Korea Institute of Toxicology.
China’s approach to AI safeguards and preparedness, with panellists from the Carnegie Endowment, Concordia AI, Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, and Fudan University’s Development Institute.
Japan’s efforts to shape regional and global standards for safe and governed AI, with Yuko Harayama of the GPAI Tokyo Center, Merve Hickok of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, and Kyoko Yoshinaga of Keio University.
The sixth and final roundtable of the series, connecting Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Myanmar. The published write-up of the series does not describe this session, so this summary says only what the recording establishes.
A tri-nation discussion bringing Vietnam, Brunei and Laos — nations often underrepresented in regional AI governance conversations — into the collective dialogue.
Malaysia’s effort to position itself as an AI hub while governing a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society, alongside Thailand’s perspective as Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy amid rapid economic development.
Insights from one of Southeast Asia’s most advanced AI governance architectures, with Wan Sie from the Infocomm Media Development Authority, the agency driving Singapore’s frameworks and digital economy strategy.
The Philippines’ experience balancing rapid digital adoption with democratic institutions and a robust civil society. Endorsed and attended by the Department of Science and Technology.
Indonesia’s scale and democratic context: how the world’s fourth most populous nation governs AI for 275 million citizens across thousands of islands. Pak Gita Wirjawan, Indonesia’s former Minister of Trade, spoke.
The roundtables, talks and course sessions AISA has recorded.
From Jakarta Roundtable — Asia’s Perspective on AI Safety: X Risks or Spectrum of Risks?
From Manila Roundtable — Asia’s Perspective on AI Safety: X Risks or Spectrum of Risks?
From Singapore Roundtable — Asia’s Perspective on AI Safety: X Risks or Spectrum of Risks?
From Advanced Governance Without Exclusion: A Critical Dialogue on Global AI Leadership
From Open-Source AI, Sovereignty and the New Geopolitics of Capability