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Singapore's AI Verify
While larger countries debate, Singapore shipped a practical tool. AI Verify is a testing framework and toolkit that lets companies self-assess against international principles.
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- 1Ship First, Regulate Later
- 2AI Verify
- 3IMDA
- 4testing framework
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Section 1
Ship First, Regulate Later
Launched by Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in 2022 and expanded through 2025, AI Verify is an open-source AI governance testing framework with an accompanying software toolkit. Companies use it to evaluate their AI systems across 11 principles — fairness, robustness, explainability, and so on — and generate reports.
The pragmatic Singaporean move
- Framework aligns with OECD, NIST, EU, and ISO principles — a translation layer
- Toolkit runs technical tests (bias metrics, robustness probes) plus procedural checks
- Reports are self-attested, not certified — builds a paper trail without regulatory weight
- AI Verify Foundation governs the open-source project; members include Google, Microsoft, IBM, Meta
- Generative AI Evaluation Sandbox (2023-) adds LLM-specific tests
Limits
- 1Self-attestation is not verification — a company fills in its own answers
- 2Technical tests cover what is measurable, not what is most important
- 3Generative AI evaluations are early-stage and evolving
- 4No enforcement mechanism — this is a trust-building tool, not a compliance tool
“Singapore does not write laws about things it doesn't yet understand. We build tools, learn from using them, and legislate when we are ready.”
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The big idea: Singapore's playbook — build tools, run sandboxes, watch what works, then regulate — is the opposite of the EU's comprehensive law-first approach. Both are being copied by different countries for different reasons.
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