Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is gathering comments from organisations that have interest in generative AI on a Testing Starter Kit for the use of this technology.
The Starter Kit generalises key insights from the Assurance Pilot and consultations with other practitioners to provide practical testing guidance for all businesses developing or leveraging generative AI applications, across sectors and use-cases. 
Also, the Starter Kit provides a step-by-step guide on how to think about risks to be concerned about, highlighting common ones like hallucination, undesirable content, data disclosure, and vulnerability to adversarial prompts, and subsequently how to test the generative AI applications. 
IMDA is calling for views from the industry on this Starter Kit on the testing guidance as well as recommended tests for the four identified risks.
The blueprint for the Starter Kit was developed based on insights from the government’s Global AI Assurance Pilot. Launched in February 2025, the pilot is an initiative to catalyse emerging norms and best practices around technical testing of real-world generative AI applications. 
Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information, announced these developments on May 28 at the ATxSummit 2025, the flagship event of Asia Tech x Singapore.
An initiative by the AI Verify Foundation (AIVF) and IMDA, the pilot was launched to encourage safe adoption of AI in industries. 
The pilot received strong interest from both local and international AI stakeholders, especially from companies deploying Gen AI in their business process. 
In the pilot, 16 specialist AI testers were paired with 17 deployers of real-world generative AI applications – from 10 different industries including finance, healthcare, HR, people and public sectors.
A key finding from the pilot was that generative AI risks are often context-dependent — specific to industry, use case, culture, language and organisation. 
To narrow risks and tests for specific situations is a challenge and the recommendation is to involve subject matter experts throughout the application lifecycle. AIVF and IMDA will continue to work with industry to refine the pilot.
Meanwhile, the Starter Kit is complemented by testing tools such as Project Moonshot, which provides a platform enabling businesses to implement the testing guidance. The Starter Kit will continue to expand to address emerging risks and testing requirements in tandem with technological developments. 
Both the Assurance Pilot and Starter Kit aim to uplift the capabilities of businesses in the safe deployment of Gen AI applications and build overall trust in the AI ecosystem.

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