As AI moves from labs into public systems, a parallel literature has grown up to measure it and to govern it. These briefs cover both: the safety and readiness evidence, the metrics, the ethics standard, and the UN architecture now taking shape around AI. Several connect directly to our event coverage of the July 2026 AI gatherings.
Independent Scientific Panel on AI (Preliminary Report)
The first assessment from the UN’s independent scientific panel on AI, handed to member states at the Global Dialogue. Our coverage of what it found.
Read our coverage → Bengio et al. · Feb 2026International AI Safety Report 2026
The Bengio-chaired, UN/EU/OECD-backed synthesis on frontier AI: capabilities rising, and the tests meant to catch the risks getting easier to game.
Read the brief → UNDP · 2026Reading AI Readiness Backwards
What 26 country assessments reveal about AI landing in public systems on vendors’ terms, before governments can steer it.
Read the brief → ITU with Deloitte · 2nd ed.AI for Good Impact Report
The AI for Good platform’s state-of-AI report: the shift from generative to agentic AI, plus sovereign AI and digital public infrastructure.
Read the brief → Stanford HAI · 2025AI Index Report 2025
The field’s most-cited yearbook: performance climbing, inference costs collapsing, incidents rising, and a widening divide in who builds and governs AI.
Read the brief → ITU / UNU-CPR · 2025Unlocking AI’s Potential to Serve Humanity
The summit’s theme report: robotics, geospatial AI, and AI-native communications as the frontiers for development impact, and five pathways to get there.
Read the brief → UN HLAB · Sep 2024Governing AI for Humanity
The UN advisory body’s final report: seven recommendations and the governance gaps that seeded the scientific panel, the Global Dialogue, and a global AI fund.
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