Singapore has on last Thursday unveiled key insights from its Global AI Assurance Pilot, an initiative to catalyze emerging norms and best practices around technical testing of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications.
The authority said in a statement that an example of a key finding from the pilot was that Gen AI risks are often context-dependent (specific to industry, use case, culture, language and organization).
To narrow risks and tests for specific situations is a challenge and the recommendation is to involve subject matter experts throughout the application lifecycle.
AI Verify Foundation (AIVF) and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) will continue to work with industry to refine the pilot.
To encourage safe adoption of AI in industries, the Global AI Assurance Pilot was launched in February 2025, an initiative by the AIVF and IMDA to catalyze emerging norms and best practices around technical testing of Gen AI applications.
The pilot received strong interest from both local and international AI stakeholders, especially from companies deploying Gen AI in their business process.
In the pilot, 16 specialist AI testers were paired with 17 deployers of real-world Gen AI applications – from 10 different industries including finance, healthcare,
human resource, people and public sectors.
According to the statement, IMDA also announced plans to develop a first of its kind Testing Starter Kit for Gen AI applications.
The Starter Kit generalizes key insights from the Assurance Pilot and consultations with other practitioners to provide practical testing guidance for all businesses developing or leveraging GenAI applications, across sectors and use-cases.
The Starter Kit provides a step-by-step guide on how to think about risks to be concerned about, highlighting common ones like hallucination, undesirable content, data disclosure, and vulnerability to adversarial prompts, and subsequently how to test the Gen AI applications.
IMDA is calling for views from the industry on this Starter Kit on the testing guidance as well as recommended tests for the four identified risks.
The Starter Kit is complemented by testing tools such as Project Moonshot, which provides a platform enabling businesses to implement the testing guidance.
The Starter Kit will continue to expand to address emerging risks and testing requirements in tandem with technological developments.
Both the Assurance Pilot and Starter Kit aim to uplift the capabilities of businesses in the safe deployment of Gen AI applications and build overall trust in the AI ecosystem.
Singapore believes in harnessing AI for Public Good and that AI can uplift economic potential, enhance social impact and meet the needs and challenges of the time.
AI Singapore (AISG) will be signing a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to advance AI literacy in six pilot countries aimed at closing the AI literacy divide and transforming communities in developing countries.
This partnership will extend AISG’s successful AI for Good (AI4Good) program – initially launched in 2024 to bolster national AI capabilities across Asia – to an international scale.
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