AI Safety Initiative

Industry leaders converge to provide authoritative research, tools, education and certification for AI safety and security.

CSA Global Research Topics
April 21, 2025

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes technology and security, CSA launches the AI Safety Initiative, a pioneering effort dedicated to establishing and disseminating trusted security best practices for AI. With an initial focus on Generative AI, our mission is to empower organizations of all sizes with the guidelines, templates, and knowledge they need to deploy AI solutions that are safe, responsible, and compliant. Our objectives include:

  1. Creating trusted best practices for AI and make them freely available
  2. Providing customers of all sizes confidence to accelerate responsible adoption due to the presence of guidelines for usage that mitigate risks
  3. Complementing AI assurance programs within governments with a healthy degree of industry self-regulation
  4. Addressing critical ethical issues and impact to society resulting from significant advances in AI over the next several years

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