Seoul Declaration and Frontier AI Safety Commitments (AI Seoul Summit)
UK and Republic of Korea governments; 16 companies signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments · 21 May 2024
At the 2024 Seoul summit sixteen AI companies promised to publish safety plans with clear red lines within nine months. Independent tracking found only about a third fully delivered on time.
What it calls for
- Safety evaluations
- Transparency
- International governance
- Pause/moratorium
Scope
Declaration: 10 countries + EU; Commitments: 16 companies (Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, Google, G42, IBM, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Naver, OpenAI, Samsung, TII, xAI, Zhipu)
What actually happened
Companies promised to publish safety frameworks with 'red line' thresholds by the Paris summit (2025-02-10). The Midas Project's Seoul Commitment Tracker graded 6 of 16 as fulfilled, 4 partial, 6 unfulfilled at the deadline (https://www.seoul-tracker.org/). xAI published only a draft, promised a final within three months, missed that too (May 2025), and finally released a framework on 2025-08-20 (https://www.themidasproject.com/article-list/xai-misses-a-second-self-imposed-deadline-to-implement-a-frontier-safety-policy; https://data.x.ai/2025-08-20-xai-risk-management-framework.pdf). No government has published its own compliance review.