# AI Safety Index Summer 2026 evaluation

> The Future of Life Institute has published its Summer 2026 AI Safety Index, an independent scorecard in which a panel of outside experts grades the major AI companies on how seriously they manage risk. The blunt takeaway is that nobody is doing well. Anthropic came out on top and still earned only a C-plus, and the panel awarded no A grades to anyone. Two findings stand out. Grades were weak across every region, undercutting the idea that any single lab has safety figured out, and several companies have quietly loosened earlier commitments, including softening bans on military use of their models. The report frames this as a field racing ahead on capability while its safeguards drift. Scorecards like this matter because they create an external, comparable baseline in an industry that mostly grades its own homework. When even the leader lands at C-plus and the trend line on voluntary commitments is pointing down, it strengthens the case that regulators, not just internal safety teams, will end up setting the floor.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Future of Life Institute · Published Saturday, September 5, 2026_

## Wortins' read

The Future of Life Institute has published its Summer 2026 AI Safety Index, an independent scorecard in which a panel of outside experts grades the major AI companies on how seriously they manage risk. The blunt takeaway is that nobody is doing well. Anthropic came out on top and still earned only a C-plus, and the panel awarded no A grades to anyone. Two findings stand out. Grades were weak across every region, undercutting the idea that any single lab has safety figured out, and several companies have quietly loosened earlier commitments, including softening bans on military use of their models. The report frames this as a field racing ahead on capability while its safeguards drift. Scorecards like this matter because they create an external, comparable baseline in an industry that mostly grades its own homework. When even the leader lands at C-plus and the trend line on voluntary commitments is pointing down, it strengthens the case that regulators, not just internal safety teams, will end up setting the floor.

## Source

[Read the full story at Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-index-summer-2026/)

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