LONDON, U.K. - Canada and the United Kingdom have renewed their partnership on artificial intelligence security, deepening a pact that ties Canada’s AI research strength to British expertise in testing and evaluating the most powerful AI systems.
The renewal was announced on October 13 during a visit to London by Evan Solomon, Canada’s minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation. It builds on the UK-Canada Science of AI Safety Partnership first announced in May 2024 and on the UK-Canada Growth and Innovation partnership signed in 2025, according to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
For readers in Surrey and across B.C., the agreement sits behind the AI tools already arriving in workplaces, schools and clinics. The rules and testing habits that governments agree on now shape how the next generation of models is checked before the public relies on it.
At the centre of the deal is closer cooperation between the Canadian AI Safety Institute and the UK AI Security Institute, as frontier AI capabilities continue to advance. The renewed partnership carries a strengthened focus on sharing information on frontier AI risks and capabilities, sharing best practices in AI evaluation, exploring staff exchanges and coordinated evaluations, strengthening societal resilience, and collaborating on technical standards.
The governments set out three priority areas. First, action on AI security standards, including work on interoperable standards so that good security practices are recognized and widely taken up, and identifying where future cooperation on common international standards should focus.
Second, stronger information sharing. The two countries will share sensitive reporting through appropriate Five Eyes channels and exchange lessons on building domestic resilience, with the aim of strengthening both societies and economies.
Third, wider technical cooperation. Officials plan regular exchanges on frontier AI capabilities, emerging risks, evaluation methods and best practice, and will explore staff exchanges and coordinated evaluation work to build links between the two institutes.
The announcement follows a run of international AI safety moves by both countries. Prime Minister Mark Carney signed the Call for Control of Frontier AI Models, launched at the UN General Assembly on September 21. Minister Solomon convened a meeting of like-minded ministers on September 18 to strengthen international cooperation on AI safety. Through the Five Eyes cyber security partnership, Canada and the UK jointly called in June 2026 for organizations to act on rapidly evolving cyber AI risk.
The British side is also tying AI to its turn on the world stage. Prime Minister Burnham committed to putting AI at the heart of the UK’s G20 presidency next year, in a speech at the UN General Assembly last month, and the UK says it will work with partners to deliver on the potential of AI for good while dealing with the risks.
Neither government announced new funding or deadlines in the release. What the renewal does is keep the machinery running: shared standards, shared warnings and shared tests, agreed before the next leap in AI capability rather than after it.
Source: Government of Canada
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