Building Trust at the Heart of Asia’s AI Future
AISA serves as an agile, entrepreneurial partner to multilateral platforms and national institutions to strengthen AI governance in Asia.
Together, We’re Building a Safer Digital Future for Asia
A global AI future where sovereign networks meaningfully help steer the trajectory of frontier technology toward public accountability, competitive plurality, and human flourishing.
Our Mission and Vision
Mission
Frontier AI is being built and governed by a handful of dominant actors, while most nations negotiate with them alone. AISA works to change that before the terms are locked in, focusing on collaboration and leverage Asia’s middle powers already hold.
To empower institutions across Asia to fully exercise the leverage they each hold over how AI’s infrastructure, technology and governance take shape globally.
Vision
A global AI future where sovereign networks meaningfully help steer the trajectory of frontier technology toward public accountability, competitive plurality, and human flourishing.
Trusted By
Turning Ideas into Action for a Safer AI Future
AISA helps institutions in Asia turn the influence they already hold into a practical counterweight, before decisions made upstream become impossible to reverse.
Curate
We help governments map national dependencies and connect them with frontier-risk scientists to ground policy in objective analysis.
Inform
We translate technical foresight into actionable, enforceable safeguards, ensuring governments can negotiate from a clear view of their country’s bargaining power.
Catalyse
We maintain invitation-only channels for senior officials and diplomats across key bridge states to achieve minimum viable alignment before formal international negotiations.
Knowledge that Drives Change
Evidence-based insights from AISA’s Curate, Inform, and Catalyse programmes across Asia.
Roundtable
Readiness as AI Agency? Strategies for middle power cooperation
24 September 2026
Bringing together decision-makers, experts, and builders to address how middle powers can exercise collective agency in AI governance.
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Paper
Scaling AI Diplomacy - How to use scenario exercises to building capacity and readiness
This policy report draws on a tabletop exercise convened alongside the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, arguing that there is an urgent need for countries to invest in preparedness through simulating crisis scenarios.
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Insight
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
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Paper
AI Safety Governance, the Southeast Asian Way
A report on AI governance across eleven Southeast Asian countries, drawing on AISA’s regional roundtables. It argues that localised, culturally informed regulation coordinated through ASEAN offers lessons for other emerging economies balancing innovation with safety.
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