{"slug": "5-nations-sign-ai-alliance-pact-to-shape-global-tech-rules", "title": "5 nations sign AI alliance pact to shape global tech rules", "summary": "Five nations — South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada — signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday in Singapore to jointly shape international artificial intelligence regulations. The pact, led by South Korea's Korean Agency for Technology and Standards, focuses on pre-standardization work to define core technical concepts and testing methods before formal global rules are set. The agreement aims to give the signatories greater influence in setting AI standards amid intensifying U.S.-China tech competition.", "body_md": "Korea's chief standardization authority has entered into a multilateral pact with its counterparts in Singapore, the U.K., Australia and Canada, to carve out a greater role in shaping international artificial intelligence (AI) regulations amid an escalating U.S.-China tech rivalry. The memorandum of understanding, signed Thursday at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, unites the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) — an affiliate of Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources— with Enterprise Singapore, the British Standards Institution, Standards Australia and the Standards Council of Canada. The agreement focuses primarily on \"pre-standardization,\" a critical phase of industry-driven groundwork that precedes formal global rules. This process defines core technical concepts, requirements, testing methodologies and conformity assessment guidelines before frameworks are officially codified by international regulators. Under the accord, the five nations plan to establish a regular circuit of joint workshops and expert seminars to share administrative best practices.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/5-nations-sign-ai-alliance-pact-to-shape-global-tech-rules", "canonical_source": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/economy/policy/20260612/5-nations-sign-ai-alliance-pact-to-shape-global-tech-rules?utm_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-06-12 02:57:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 02:58:03.166151+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Korean Agency for Technology and Standards", "Enterprise Singapore", "British Standards Institution", "Standards Australia", "Standards Council of Canada", "Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources", "Shangri-La Hotel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/5-nations-sign-ai-alliance-pact-to-shape-global-tech-rules", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/5-nations-sign-ai-alliance-pact-to-shape-global-tech-rules.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/5-nations-sign-ai-alliance-pact-to-shape-global-tech-rules.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/5-nations-sign-ai-alliance-pact-to-shape-global-tech-rules.jsonld"}}