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Analysis and commentary from AI Safety Asia. The reports, papers and submissions behind it are on Publications.

Building Indonesia's AI Governance Capacity: Training the Architects of Responsible Innovation

AISA's intensive training programs equip Indonesian government leaders with frameworks to govern AI in the public interest

Building Southeast Asia's AI Governance Ecosystem: The Regional Roundtable Series

AISA convenes government officials, researchers, and civil society leaders across six Southeast Asian capitals, establishing critical infrastructure for regional AI governance collaboration

Empowering Civil Society: AI Governance Training for ASEAN Advocates

AISA equips grassroots leaders at DRAPAC 2025 with frameworks to engage effectively in AI policy and protect digital rights

Equipping Parliaments for the AI Age: AISA's Training for Commonwealth Legislators

At the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's AI Conference, AISA delivered intensive training on building national AI capacity and parliamentary oversight frameworks

Reimagining Data Governance for an AI-Enabled Future

AISA and Asia Society France convene Europe-Asia dialogue at AI Action Summit, challenging dominant paradigms and building frameworks for data as a global public good

Training Asia's Cooperative AI Leaders: From Theory to Practice

AISA's inaugural Cooperative AI course attracts nearly 1,500 applicants and produces groundbreaking research grounded in Asian contexts

The Brookings video of the Asia AI Safety Report launch, showing seven panellists in a video-call grid under the title “AI safety governance in Southeast Asia”

AI Safety Governance, The Southeast Asian Way: Bridging Global North Leadership with Regional Realities

A landmark collaboration between AI Safety Asia and the Brookings Institution charts a new course for inclusive AI governance

RAISE-SEA: Building Policy Resilience for an AI-Enabled Future

Recognized among the top 10 projects at Paris Peace Forum 2025, RAISE-SEA equips Global South leaders with tools to navigate AI's transformative impact

The SEA Observatory under its earlier name, showing a searchable feed of AI governance policies listed by country, progress, date and actor, beside a map of Southeast Asia for filtering by country

SEA Observatory: Born from Necessity, Built for Impact

Awarded second prize at UNESCO Global Forum on AI Ethics 2025, the SEA Observatory transforms fragmented knowledge into actionable intelligence for Southeast Asian AI governance

In the press

Where AISA's work has been written about elsewhere.

AI in Southeast Asia: Optimism, Investment, and Opportunities

An interview with AISA co-founder Edward Tsoi on AI adoption across Southeast Asia: heavy infrastructure investment and regional optimism set against a gap in governance readiness, and why imported frameworks do not transfer wholesale.

AI Elsewhere · 21 July 2025

Coloured pins marking cities across a paper map of Southeast Asia

Hong Kong's vision of becoming AI hub demands clear road map

Hong Kong ranks 16th on the 2024 Global AI Index, strong on infrastructure and research but behind on government strategy and regulation. The piece argues the ambition needs a development blueprint and a governance structure behind it, and sets out five steps.

South China Morning Post · 24 March 2025 · by Rachel Chan and Edward Tsoi

A quadruped robot walking beside a visitor across a curved LED floor at a technology exhibition