Study finds AI companies follow only half of safety pledges
A 2025 study found evidence that voluntary AI safety commitments were followed only 53% of the time.
Trump and six tech companies signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence this week. The accord asks tech companies to regulate themselves on AI safety, a familiar promise.
A UN declaration from 22 world leaders called for an international AI safety regulator. A decade of similar pledges has delivered little real change or rules.
The Partnership on AI, formed ten years ago, made the same pledges. A 2025 study found that voluntary AI safety commitments were followed just 53% of the time.
For pledges to work, they need funding, real institutions, enforceable rules, and specific pledges instead of broad statements.
- 53 per cent
- Pledge compliance rate
- Trump and six tech companies
- Accord signatories
- 22
- World leaders signing UN declaration
- Three months
- Notification delay
Why it mattersEmpty promises won't slow AI's risks. Real enforcement and funding are needed to make safety declarations meaningful.
AustraliaAustralian government websites have been targeted by AI hack attempts. Australia's AI Safety Institute was announced but receives only one-sixteenth the funding of its UK counterpart.
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