AI Briefing — May 30, 2024

Executive briefing: On May 30, 2024 the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and AI Verify Foundation published Singapore’s Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI. The framework provides actionable principles for responsible model development, deployment, and operations spanning accountability, data provenance, content provenance, and system integrity. Zeph Tech is translating the guidance into enterprise playbooks for organisations operating across ASEAN and global markets.

Key governance themes

Accountability by design. The framework requires named senior owners, risk registers, and incident response processes for generative AI systems.
Safety and alignment testing. Providers should conduct pre-deployment evaluations, red-teaming, and continuous monitoring covering misuse, bias, and hallucinations.
Content provenance. Recommendations include cryptographic watermarking, metadata labelling, and disclosure mechanisms to help users identify AI-generated outputs.
Cybersecurity and resilience. Organisations must harden model pipelines with secure software development, supply-chain assurance, and safeguards against model theft or prompt injection.

Control alignment

ISO/IEC 42001:2023. Map accountability, risk management, and transparency duties to AI management system clauses 5–8.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Leverage the framework’s guidance to strengthen Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage functions for generative AI services.
Singapore AI Verify Programme. Use AI Verify testing protocols to evidence compliance with the framework’s safety and transparency expectations.

Implementation priorities

Establish cross-functional governance boards covering policy, legal, security, and engineering to own generative AI lifecycle decisions.
Integrate watermarking and provenance metadata into content delivery pipelines, with monitoring dashboards for authenticity checks.
Run recurring red-team exercises and benchmark evaluations, capturing findings in risk registers with mitigation owners.

Enablement moves

Update third-party procurement questionnaires to assess vendor conformance with the Singapore framework and ISO/IEC 42001.
Deliver training for product teams on transparency notices, user disclosures, and prompt security hygiene.
Align ASEAN regulatory trackers—covering Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia—with generative AI governance expectations to streamline regional operations.

Sources

Zeph Tech’s ASEAN AI compliance services link Singapore’s framework with EU AI Act, U.S. agency policy, and ISO/IEC 42001 readiness to enable global assurance.