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17 Countries Endorse Kyoto Vision for AI-Driven Science
The United States and 16 other countries endorsed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science on October 4, 2026. The declaration calls for broader access to AI research tools, varied science-funding models and investment in early-career r
AI.info Team · Written with AI ·
On October 4, 2026, the United States and 16 other countries endorsed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science at the Science and Technology in Society Forum’s annual meeting in Kyoto, Japan. The declaration puts “Super Intelligence,” or SI, at the center of an agenda for scientific research, alongside changes to funding institutions and training for early-career researchers. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios led the U.S. effort.
“The way we make scientific discoveries has changed, and the Kyoto Vision is a recognition of that shift and a call to action,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in the White House announcement. The declaration frames SI as a means to speed existing research and enable new kinds of inquiry, while calling on governments to expand researchers’ access to tools, data, computing and experimental facilities.
Kyoto’s declaration sets three priorities
The document groups its agenda into three areas: improving the institutions that support discovery, integrating SI into research, and cultivating scientific talent. On funding, it backs a mix of long-duration awards, rapid grants, prizes and challenges. It also encourages experimentation with research institutions that give scientists different levels of autonomy, resources and direction.
The declaration calls metascience—the use of empirical methods to study how science is conducted, organized and funded—a way to improve research systems. It urges governments to consider dedicated metascience capabilities and stresses scientific integrity, including reproducibility, transparency, peer review and recognition of negative and null results. Those principles place research standards alongside the call to expand computational and experimental capacity.
Access to tools, data and facilities
On SI, the text encourages research that uses the technology to work across large bodies of knowledge, build higher-fidelity models of physical and biological systems, and support autonomous, closed-loop discovery. It also calls for researchers to gain access to SI tools, scientific data, computing infrastructure and experimental facilities “at the scale researchers now require.” The document describes these as directions for participating countries, not a shared procurement plan.
Neither the one-page declaration nor the White House announcement specifies a common budget, timetable or numerical target for providing that access. The text also does not set out a technical definition or threshold for “Super Intelligence.” Instead, it sets a broad policy direction: integrate the technology into research while changing how scientific work is funded and organized.
The 17 endorsing countries
The endorsers are Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. The White House identifies the meeting as the 23rd annual STS Forum meeting.
For research talent, the declaration calls for investment in high-potential students and early-career researchers, along with hands-on training for people who operate and maintain sophisticated instruments. It also encourages joint doctoral programs, fellowships and research partnerships across scientific settings. The document’s concrete commitments are framed as intentions and encouragements; it assigns no shared spending figure or deadline to those steps.