Singapore's first civil society organization for AI safety, providing a co-working space, events, and community hub for researchers and professionals working on AI safety governance, technical research, and field-building in Asia.
Singapore's first civil society organization for AI safety, providing a co-working space, events, and community hub for researchers and professionals working on AI safety governance, technical research, and field-building in Asia.
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Org Details
Updated 05/18/26The Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) is Singapore's first civil society organization dedicated to AI safety. Founded in February 2025 by Miro Plueckebaum, SASH operates as a co-working, events, and community space for researchers and professionals working on AI safety. The hub is located at WeWork, 22 Cross Street in central Singapore. SASH serves as a platform for AI safety governance, technical research, and field-building in the Asian region. The hub houses established researchers from internationally recognized AI safety organizations including FAR.AI, Truthful AI, Apart Research, The Future Society, and Impact Academy, who conduct both technical and governance research on-site. In its first year, SASH hosted over 30 events attracting more than 1,000 attendees and established partnerships with key stakeholders including IMDA (the Infocomm Media Development Authority), the Singapore AI Safety Institute, and SGInnovate. The hub has also partnered with the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA) to launch local cohorts. SASH's programs span several areas: sponsoring and incubating AI safety research through a residency program that brings top international researchers to Singapore; working with existing AI safety upskilling nonprofits to bring their programs to Singapore; and expanding relationships with key AI governance stakeholders domestically and internationally. The hub has organized events including AI Control Hackathons with Apart Research, Women in AI Safety gatherings, AI Security Bootcamps, and the ML4Good Bootcamp. Founder Miro Plueckebaum splits his time between running SASH, serving as a Programme Specialist at the Centre for the Governance of AI, and supporting the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative on strategy and research management. He has over a decade of experience in AI products and governance across Europe and Asia, having established SAP's initial AI governance efforts in Europe and led data analytics products at ByteDance in Beijing and Singapore. He is a graduate of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and the University of York. SASH is fiscally sponsored by Impact Academy Limited and has received funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund. The organization is actively seeking a founding Executive Director to lead its next phase of growth.
Theory of Change
Updated 05/18/26SASH believes that building a strong civil society ecosystem for AI safety in Singapore and the broader Asian region is critical to ensuring safe AI development globally. By providing physical co-working infrastructure, hosting events, running residency and upskilling programs, and facilitating governance engagement, SASH aims to grow the local AI safety talent pipeline, enable international researchers to collaborate in Singapore, strengthen connections between technical AI safety researchers and policymakers, and establish Singapore as a key node in the global AI safety network. The hub's theory is that concentrating AI safety talent and organizations in one physical space catalyzes collaboration, community building, and ultimately more effective AI safety research and governance outcomes in a region that is critically important for AI development but historically underrepresented in the AI safety ecosystem.
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