# International AI Safety Report 2026: largest global collaboration on AI safety with 100+ experts

> The second International AI Safety Report is out, again chaired by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and assembled by more than a hundred experts with backing from over thirty countries. Modeled loosely on the way climate science is synthesized for policymakers, it is the largest coordinated attempt to give governments a shared, evidence-based picture of where AI risk actually stands rather than leaving each country to guess. Its central worry is a gap. The report argues that alignment research, the work of making sure powerful systems reliably do what people intend, is not keeping pace with how quickly model capabilities are scaling, and that the field lacks solid mechanisms to close that distance. In plainer terms, the machines are getting more capable faster than our ability to steer them is improving. The document does not set policy itself, but it is meant to be the common reference that national regulators, labs, and researchers can point to. In a domain where hype and alarm often drown out evidence, a broad expert consensus on what is and is not known carries real weight.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: International AI Safety Report · Published Wednesday, August 26, 2026_

## Wortins' read

The second International AI Safety Report is out, again chaired by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and assembled by more than a hundred experts with backing from over thirty countries. Modeled loosely on the way climate science is synthesized for policymakers, it is the largest coordinated attempt to give governments a shared, evidence-based picture of where AI risk actually stands rather than leaving each country to guess. Its central worry is a gap. The report argues that alignment research, the work of making sure powerful systems reliably do what people intend, is not keeping pace with how quickly model capabilities are scaling, and that the field lacks solid mechanisms to close that distance. In plainer terms, the machines are getting more capable faster than our ability to steer them is improving. The document does not set policy itself, but it is meant to be the common reference that national regulators, labs, and researchers can point to. In a domain where hype and alarm often drown out evidence, a broad expert consensus on what is and is not known carries real weight.

## Source

[Read the full story at International AI Safety Report](https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/international-ai-safety-report-2026/)

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