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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.

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Vision

A global AI future where sovereign networks meaningfully help steer the trajectory of frontier technology toward public accountability, competitive plurality, and human flourishing.

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Trusted By

INDIAai
Oxford Martin School
Asia Society
Paris Peace Forum
United Nations Development Programme
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Mila
Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
Brookings Institution
Future of Life Institute
Infocomm Media Development Authority
Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital Republik Indonesia
KORIKA
DOST-ASTI
Cooperative AI Foundation
Centre for the Governance of AI
Apart Research
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Chatham House
Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
International Association for Safe and Ethical AI
World Economic Forum
Partnership on AI
MIT AI Risk Initiative
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Founders Pledge
Windfall Trust
Omidyar Network
INHR
Metaculus
University of Zurich

Building Trust at the Heart ofAsia’s AI Future

AISA serves as an agile, entrepreneurial partner to multilateral platforms and national institutions to strengthen AI governance in Asia.

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Turning Ideas into Action for aSafer 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.

What we do →
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We maintain invitation-only channels for senior officials and diplomats across key bridge states to achieve minimum viable alignment before formal international negotiations.

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We translate technical foresight into actionable, enforceable safeguards, ensuring governments can negotiate from a clear view of their country’s bargaining power.

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We help governments map national dependencies and connect them with frontier-risk scientists to ground policy in objective analysis.

Knowledge that Drives Change

Evidence-based insights from AISA’s Curate, Inform, and Catalyse programmes across Asia.

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