Enforce model access, use and environmental controls

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Stage: Containment and Mitigation; Stakeholder: National Government: AISI; Additional information: Governments and developers should improve safety governance by fostering robust safety cultures and adopting secure-by-design principles. AI developers should evaluate failure modes and implement safeguards before deployment, with independent third-party audits verifying compliance with existing standards, as commonplace in other fields such as nuclear energy, aviation, finance and banking, pharmaceuticals, and more. AI developers should also continue to allocate compute resources to AI safety, including research on monitoring, alignment and safeguards. Governments could make secure-by-design guidelines mandatory to ensure that safety features are built into AI models from the outset (NCSC 2023). They could also consider requirements or incentives for safety research.