# The Bletchley Park summit (2023): SI History

> The first global summit on frontier safety. 28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration. Explained in plain English, with sources.

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# The Bletchley Park summit (2023)

The first global summit on frontier safety. 28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration.

Date
:   Nov 2023

Type
:   Milestone

Status
:   Happened

Era
:   2023

## What happened

The first global summit on frontier safety. 28 countries and the EU sign the Bletchley Declaration.

## Why it matters

The summit launched a series of international meetings, followed by Seoul in 2024 and later summits, and coincided with the creation of the first government safety institutes in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## Source

1. [UK Government](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration)

## On the timeline

This event is one of 20 milestones on the [RSI timeline](https://enterrsi.si/timeline/), from 1950 to SI building SI.

The event

Date
:   November 1, 2023

Type
:   Timeline milestone

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[SI safety institute **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/safety-institute/)[Frontier model **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/frontier-model/)

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