From April 26 to 27, 2025, Dr. Dong Ting,Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), Tsinghua University, was invited to attend the Singapore Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI). Nearly one hundred researchers in AI technology, industry, and policy from over a dozen countries including Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, and South Korea participated in the conference. They gathered to identify and advance priorities for shaping safe and trustworthy AI.

The conference was opened by Josephine Teo, Singapore’s Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Smart Nation and Cybersecurity, and featured a keynote speech by Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio. The event consisted of three main segments: designing safe and responsible AI systems, control—monitoring and intervention, and risk assessment. Dr. Dong participated as a panelist in the “Risk Assessment” session and took part in the discussion of the conference report.

SCAI is a multilateral international conference co-hosted by Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI). This year’s discussions built upon the “SCAI Questions” framework introduced at the inaugural 2023 conference, as well as the “International AI Safety Report” jointly released by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the UK AI Safety Institute. These discussions culminated in the “Singapore Consensus on Global Research Priorities for Artificial Intelligence.”