The UK has today (Monday) published the first global guidelines to ensure the secure development of AI technology. In testament to the UK’s leadership in AI safety, agencies from 17 other countries have confirmed they will endorse and co-seal the new guidelines. The guidelines aim to raise the cyber security levels of artificial intelligence and help ensure that it is designed, developed, and deployed securely. The new UK-led guidelines are the first of their kind to be agreed upon globally. They will help developers of any systems that use AI make informed cyber security decisions at every stage of the development process, whether those systems have been created from scratch or built on top of tools and services provided by others. The guidelines help developers ensure that cyber security is both an essential pre-condition of AI system safety and integral to the development process from the outset and throughout, known as a ‘secure by design’ approach.