AI Safety Institutes in the Global South

The rapid expansion of AI systems across multiple domains, especially the proliferation of generative AI tools and large language models (LLMs), has brought questions of safety to the forefront, exacting immediate attention from all stakeholders alike. As countries in the Global South take steps to form their AISIs, this report offers insights from the direction and experiences of existing AISIs, for upcoming Global South AISIs. This report includes a comparative mapping that provides insights into some of the structural and functional aspects of the existing and upcoming AISIs. The jurisdictions included in the mapping have been identified to ensure regional representation and the inclusion of major jurisdictions from each region of the world.