Singapore rolls out toolkit to test generative AI safety

Singapore wants to be at the front and centre of testing the safety of generative artificial intelligence (gen Al) models and has launched its most ambitious project yet.

- Zhaki Abdullah

Dubbed Project Moonshot, the new toolkit targeted at AI app developers aims to address safety and security challenges associated with large language models (LLMs) systems that form the cornerstone of many gen Al-driven solutions.

"Our objective is to provide a safer environment for businesses and citizens to use AI and enable AI innovations," Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo said on May 31 at the ATXAI conference, part of the Asia Tech x Singapore event, held at Capella Singapore hotel.

She said, as its name suggests, Project Moonshot is "an undertaking to challenge ourselves".

The increasingly widespread adoption of AI has resulted in people wanting more protections against risks caused by the technology, even as businesses worry that such protections could dampen innovation in the field, she added.

In Singapore, the authorities believe that in AI, governance is just as important as innovation, Mrs Teo said, describing Project Moonshot as the next step in the pursuit of good governance in AL.

"Good governance is not the enemy of innovation," she said.