The Asilomar AI Principles are published

The Future of Life Institute published 23 principles on research practice, ethics and long-term safety, drawn from its Beneficial AI conference at Asilomar, California, in January. More than 1,700 AI and robotics researchers eventually signed them.

Why it mattered One of the most cited voluntary frameworks for AI ethics and safety, quoted afterward in corporate and government governance documents.

Corrections

  • 2026-10-05: Corrected the publication date from 11 August 2017 to January 2017 (month precision). Contemporary coverage shows the principles were already published on FLI’s website in January 2017: GeekWire reported them on 30 January 2017 and Robohub’s February 2017 digest described them as just published, following the 5-8 January Beneficial AI conference.