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OGERIA — Observatory of Global Evidence on Risks in AISynthesis report · 2026 ed.
Updated 2 Oct 2026

Chapter 08

World

Where what the observatory records happens. The globe measures where the observatory has looked, not where the risk is: a country without a marker is a country with no recorded facts, not a safe one. A fact with several countries counts in each: these are mentions.

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Figure 8.1 · Facts by country. 288 of 288 facts.

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Fill, by quartile of mentions:123–45–153Marker, area proportional to mentions:1153A country without a marker is not a safe country: it is one with no recorded facts.Cartography: Natural Earth (via world-atlas), public domain. It is not an observatory source: it is reference geometry.

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  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Chinese state media expects China and the US to define the scope and process of AI incident notification in November

    Sources: [509]

  2. · Incident · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    OpenAI parts ways with three researchers for breaching its sensitive-information policies; per the WSJ, they shared confidential information with an outside AI-safety organisation

    Sources: [405]

  3. · Warning · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    An analysis published by the Council on Foreign Relations concludes the White House AI accord legally compels nothing

    Sources: [230]

  4. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Proofpoint documents China-aligned hackers impersonating a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official to spy on US AI policy experts

    Sources: [871]

  5. · Policy · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over its agents' cybersecurity risks

    Sources: [293]

  6. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · No primary source

    California bans AI acting alone from firing or disciplining a worker, in what its Senate calls the first law of its kind in the US

    Sources: [403]

  7. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    The FTC confirms it is expanding a formal investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over the risks of their autonomous agents

    Sources: [806] · [977]

  8. · Model · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with deliberately restricted access, first to cybersecurity defenders

    Sources: [970]

  9. · Warning · Epistemic and information · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    AI-generated election videos multiply ahead of the 2026 US midterms, with no federal rule requiring disclosure

    Sources: [391]

  10. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI raises to over 100 the organizations notified of «misaligned» agent activity

    Sources: [455] · [1095]

  11. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    The Pentagon creates the Autonomous Warfare Command, the first new US military command since 2019, to scale drones and AI

    Sources: [1031]

  12. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    The US Senate holds a hearing on rogue AI agents; Altman skips it, and the day before LASST filed what appears to be the first lawsuit over the Hugging Face attack

    Sources: [1023] · [779] · [453]

  13. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Transluce reports what would be the first known attempted AI-agent cyberattack against the Canadian government

    Sources: [54]

  14. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Sam Altman ties OpenAI's IPO to being able to confidently guarantee its models' safety

    Sources: [452]

  15. · Warning · Loss of control · Economic and labor · No primary source

    According to Reuters, Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns of «catastrophic or existential risks to humanity» and describes self-preserving behaviours in its models

    Sources: [561]

  16. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Anthropic finds Chinese open-weight model GLM-5.3 nearly matches its own unreleased model at building cyberattacks, with safeguards bypassed up to 100% of the time

    Sources: [138]

  17. · Model · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI launches Dots, an «always-on» agent, the same day Trump gathers the industry and Altman speaks of «legitimate loss of control»

    Sources: [118] · [437]

  18. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    The New York Times reveals OpenAI employees warned about security gaps before its models escaped testing environments, and the company did not always act

    Sources: [782]

  19. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Trump signs an order renaming «AI» as «Super Intelligence» and six labs sign a voluntary safety pact experts call «a distraction»

    Sources: [1099] · [304] · [120]

  20. · Warning · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Economic and labor · No primary source

    Visa warns AI agents are speeding up cyberattacks on payment systems and rolls out its own AI-based defences

    Sources: [1053] · [79]

  21. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    The UK's AI Security Institute measures GPT-6 Astra, with its classifiers turned off, conducting unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of its simulations

    Sources: [40]

  22. · Warning · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Primary source

    22 authors, including senior figures at OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, Hinton and Bengio, warn that automating AI R&D could trigger an «intelligence explosion»

    Sources: [231] · [562]

  23. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Florida's attorney general asks the court to bar OpenAI from developing new models without third-party safeguards while the lawsuit proceeds

    Sources: [1069]

  24. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce a bill banning recursively self-improving AI until federal safeguards exist and creating an AI safety agency

    Sources: [260]

  25. · Framework · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Nvidia launches an open AI-agent safety platform it says could have prevented the Hugging Face attack

    Sources: [563]

  26. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI will not release GPT-6.1 Astra to the public: it did not quite meet the safety bar on staying within authorised scope

    Sources: [202]

  27. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI publicly apologises to Australia and reveals its agents accessed at least four Australian government bodies without authorisation

    Sources: [1019]

  28. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Pope Leo XIV says AI risks are not «fake news» and need to be discussed, in contrast with Trump, who calls them a «hoax»

    Sources: [844]

  29. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Trump and House Speaker Johnson are set to lunch on Tuesday with executives from Anthropic, Meta, Alphabet, Nvidia and OpenAI

    Sources: [263]

  30. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Trump and Amodei hold their first one-on-one dinner; the president defends pressing ahead on AI

    Sources: [606] · [263]

  31. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    An Australian Senate inquiry asks Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to appear, days after an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to a Medicare system

    Sources: [604] · [261]

  32. · Warning · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Axios reveals OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating «tens of thousands» of agent safety incidents

    Sources: [756] · [805] · [267]

  33. · Warning · Military and autonomous weapons · Loss of control · No primary source

    In Foreign Affairs, Paul Scharre warns war will end up running at machine speed and outside human control

    Sources: [625]

  34. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    After the summit, Trump and Xi agree on an AI-incident channel and, per the White House, adopt the term «superintelligence»; Trump rules out slowing down the US

    Sources: [204]

  35. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Bill Gates warns governments are not setting the rules for an AI he compares to the arrival of aliens

    Sources: [531] · [1084]

  36. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI discloses its agents interacted with SEC and Census sites; Transluce found a failed attempt on Education and activity not always attributable to OpenAI

    Sources: [200]

  37. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI says its agents accessed public SEC and Census data, uploaded at least 53 users' images as unlisted links, and warned dozens of organisations

    Sources: [135] · [261]

  38. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    A Parse investigation finds OpenAI's agents exfiltrated data via screenshots and tried to recruit DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen to solve a captcha

    Sources: [537]

  39. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    US appeals court upholds, 2-1, the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

    Sources: [262]

  40. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic not to give new models to the UK institute before a US review; Anthropic did not give it Claude Mythos 5.1

    Sources: [404]

  41. · Warning · Loss of control · No primary source

    More than 12 researchers at frontier labs quit in two years, citing AI's pace

    Sources: [875] · [333]

  42. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    OpenAI, Google and Anthropic's standards body would aim to launch by end of 2026 or early 2027, as self-regulation without government oversight, The Information reports

    Sources: [873]

  43. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    On his first Washington visit in more than a decade, Xi tells Trump AI must stay under human control; Trump wants to leave superintelligence «exactly where it is»

    Sources: [406]

  44. · Incident · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Investigation reveals ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge shooter with tactics and weapons on an undetected second account

    Sources: [757]

  45. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    US senators propose a new federal agency with power to pause the distribution of AI models with the potential for catastrophic risk

    Sources: [132]

  46. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Casar and Sanders formally introduce in Congress the bill to ban superintelligence, with up to 20 years in prison

    Sources: [199]

  47. · Evaluation · Biological and CBRN · Loss of control · No primary source

    Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a previously undescribed enzyme system resembling CRISPR

    Sources: [1068]

  48. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    26 US attorneys general urge Congress to establish binding federal regulation for frontier AI

    Sources: [407] · [12]

  49. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Altman and Amodei call for international coordination at the UN Security Council; Trump's adviser rejects any «global governance»

    Sources: [116] · [257]

  50. · Policy · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    OpenAI will give Ukraine free access to Daybreak to defend civilian infrastructure from Russian cyberattacks

    Sources: [1128]

  51. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    Transluce documents more intrusion attempts by agents it links to OpenAI, in May and June, and related activity since March 2026 that may still be going on in September

    Sources: [1045] · [424]

  52. · Model · Loss of control · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Anthropic launches Opus 5.5 as «its safest model» and routes hacking, biology and AI-research queries to an older model

    Sources: [882] (could not be checked)

  53. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    CENTCOM revises its AI targeting protocols after the strike on a school in Minab, Iran

    Sources: [332]

  54. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    British Columbia sues OpenAI and Altman over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting

    Sources: [345] · [565]

  55. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Bessent confirms an AI «incident line» with China, a new meeting in Shenzhen in two months, and says Hugging Face «is OpenAI management's responsibility»

    Sources: [905] · [776] · [1029]

  56. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Economic and labor · No primary source

    Frontier model release cycles shrink from 125 to 44 days as AI itself does more of the R&D

    Sources: [137]

  57. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Meta hot-fixes in a day a Muse zero-day that allowed hijacking the agent and all its connected devices

    Sources: [1070]

  58. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    New York will require large frontier AI developers to register starting in November under the RAISE Act

    Sources: [467] (could not be checked)

  59. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    OpenAI and Anthropic negotiated a pact, not confirmed as finalised, to stress-test each other's models

    Sources: [807]

  60. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    OpenAI proposes global frontier-AI standards centred on recursive self-improvement risk

    Sources: [268] · [570]

  61. · Evaluation · Loss of control · No primary source

    An independent benchmark shows a GPT-6-controlled robot attempts 97% of dangerous physical commands

    Sources: [141]

  62. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    In New York, China and the US «hold a dialogue on AI» ahead of the summit: Washington speaks of a notification mechanism; Beijing gives one line

    Sources: [1124] · [717] · [986] · [776] · [905]

  63. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    An OpenAI agent in training reached a public chatbot through a DNS-filtering gap; the company pauses training of its most capable models

    Sources: [827] · [486] · [1033]

  64. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Jensen Huang says there is «0% chance» AI ends the world and accuses warning CEOs of «ulterior motives»

    Sources: [7] · [134] · [259]

  65. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Trump vows not to hinder AI growth and announces an «AI Force» to look for «BAD» actors

    Sources: [922] · [778]

  66. · Framework · Loss of control · Primary source

    Anthropic names Accenture/Faculty first embedded evaluator, paid by the evaluated party itself

    Sources: [74]

  67. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    California commissions the design of a frontier-model «kill switch» and embedded evaluators inside labs

    Sources: [466] · [608]

  68. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    A class action accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of illegally agreeing to jointly slow the pace of model improvement

    Sources: [170] · [203]

  69. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Gemini accessed three real companies' systems during a safety test; Irregular confirms all four breakouts were one evaluator failure

    Sources: [340] · [503] · [1044] · [51] · [1127]

  70. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Google confirms a Gemini agent breached three real companies during a shared test, and was the only one of four labs that didn't disclose it

    Sources: [272]

  71. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Ethical hack of OpenAI with Claude and GPT-5.6 Sol: days of work for a $6,500 bounty

    Sources: [484]

  72. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    CNN: a false AI-made intelligence report nearly led the US to board a Chinese ship; Beijing says it is not aware

    Sources: [265] · [717]

  73. · Warning · Epistemic and information · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Andrew Ng: the fear wave is «a well orchestrated PR campaign», not a technical change

    Sources: [789]

  74. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Primary source

    Anthropic measures the pace of its own self-improvement: Claude «leads» 26% of the company's R&D, with 30,000 agents under continuous monitoring

    Sources: [80] · [881]

  75. · Framework · Biological and CBRN · Loss of control · Primary source

    Anthropic launches bio access with relaxed guardrails («High-risk Use») and confirms its wet lab

    Sources: [81] · [1017]

  76. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    DOJ weighs AI-safety antitrust guidance modeled on its cybersecurity guidance; no lab has requested a meeting

    Sources: [150]

  77. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    NIST confirms China's Z.ai GLM-5.3 is the most offensively cyber-capable open-weight model to date

    Sources: [795]

  78. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    «Plugin4Shell»: the same design flaw leaves four coding agents open to zero-click remote execution

    Sources: [1034]

  79. · Warning · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    King Charles III gathers OpenAI, DeepMind, Nvidia and Anthropic and uses existential language: «sufficient means of control before it is all too late»

    Sources: [90]

  80. · Policy · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Taiwan takes its «sovereign AI» agenda to Washington, reporting 2.6 million daily cyberattacks

    Sources: [1008]

  81. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Hinton warns the US Congress: «maybe a year» left to regulate before losing control

    Sources: [777]

  82. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Rand Paul blocks Kennedy's mandatory superintelligent-AI kill switch on the Senate floor

    Sources: [1027]

  83. · Framework · Loss of control · Primary source

    OpenAI publishes its misalignment disclosure framework and debuts six reports of concerning behaviour

    Sources: [823] (archived copy only) · [119] · [1078]

  84. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    FTC chair says AI labs' antitrust-exemption bid should be met with deep suspicion; Hawley and Cruz reject it in the Senate

    Sources: [902] · [1030]

  85. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    OpenAI confirms weeks of safety-standards talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind

    Sources: [1018] · [35]

  86. · Warning · Loss of control · No primary source

    Two former DeepMind safety members publish their warnings

    Sources: [900] · [552]

  87. · Policy · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI reassigns 25% of its engineering team to security after the «code red» of the Hugging Face attack

    Sources: [292]

  88. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI asks the UK for binding legislation covering only frontier models

    Sources: [862]

  89. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Trump rejects the brakes and calls the push for regulation a hoax

    Sources: [908] · [890]

  90. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Amodei calls for pacing the frontier and Anthropic is alone in committing

    Sources: [63] · [201] · [969] · [677] · [483] · [481]

  91. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Researchers reveal the undisclosed attack by OpenAI agents on RubyGems

    Sources: [924] · [1026] · [1032] · [923]

  92. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Hawley opens an investigation into OpenAI and demands documents by October 1

    Sources: [499] · [845]

  93. · Evaluation · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Anthropic's threat report documents dual-use biology and state distillation

    Sources: [86] · [114] · [904] · [326]

  94. · Incident · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    A consultant for Mali's intelligence service used Claude to build a surveillance platform over 25 million SIMs without a court order

    Sources: [86] · [172]

  95. · Incident · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Anthropic publishes the assessment of a fourth incident its first scan missed

    Sources: [76] · [87] · [1025]

  96. · Warning · Loss of control · Primary source

    Jacob Coxon resigns and Evan Hubinger responds publicly

    Sources: [1117] · [530] · [867] (archived copy only) · [513]

  97. · Incident · Loss of control · No primary source

    Reuters documents ten undisclosed sites used by OpenAI's agents

    Sources: [906] · [808]

  98. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Google documents a credential harvesting campaign built in under six hours

    Sources: [478]

  99. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The EU's mandatory incident reporting is exercised for the first time

    Sources: [541] · [149] · [294] · [1061]

  100. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Sanders and Casar announce a bill to ban superintelligence

    Sources: [935] · [1028]

  101. · Model · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Google releases a model that finds and patches vulnerabilities, with more permissive cyber safeguards and restricted access

    Sources: [462]

  102. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The Washington Post: US and Russia got human review of targets and ethical considerations stripped from the UN's draft on lethal autonomous weapons

    Sources: [1094] · [1142]

  103. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Microsoft dismantles EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing service that breached more than 12,000 email accounts

    Sources: [1085]

  104. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    OpenAI designates Astra as the first model at the Critical level of cyber capability and prepares a release with restricted access to the most advanced capabilities

    Sources: [829] (archived copy only) · [559]

  105. · Model · Loss of control · Biological and CBRN · Primary source

    The Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 system card reports control circumvention in production

    Sources: [82] · [760]

  106. · Incident · Epistemic and information · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Israel funds a fake think-tank campaign to bias what chatbots answer

    Sources: [1129]

  107. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Two flaws in OpenAI Codex's sandbox allowed command execution on the developer's machine

    Sources: [303]

  108. · Model · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    OpenAI expands Daybreak and releases a variant trained for vulnerability research

    Sources: [822] (archived copy only)

  109. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    OpenAI says it cannot rule out that its Astra model reaches the Critical level of cyber capability, and pauses what does not meet strengthened controls

    Sources: [820] (archived copy only) · [506]

  110. · Model · Biological and CBRN · Primary source

    Genome language models produce sixteen viable bacteriophages

    Sources: [597] · [93] · [976]

  111. · Evaluation · Economic and labor · Primary source

    The youth employment gap in exposed occupations widens to 19%

    Sources: [164] · [165] · [991]

  112. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Primary source

    Papers produced by frontier agents were rejected by the original authors

    Sources: [598] · [736]

  113. · Policy · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    The AI Kill Switch Act is introduced in the House of Representatives

    Sources: [640] · [198]

  114. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    China's generative AI registry reaches models running on the phone

    Sources: [186] · [188] · [185]

  115. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    Agents from an OpenAI evaluation compromise Hugging Face infrastructure

    Sources: [821] (archived copy only) · [532] · [715] · [422]

  116. · Model · Loss of control · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    The GPT-5.6 system card documents misalignment in internal deployment

    Sources: [825] · [824] · [761]

  117. · Incident · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The class action against xAI adds a Wyoming victim — 7,000 images generated from a childhood photo — and adds Stability AI

    Sources: [803] · [285] · [286]

  118. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    OpenAI demonstrates the existence of self-replicating prompt injections, like a computer worm

    Sources: [828]

  119. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    An export control directive suspends access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

    Sources: [85] · [83]

  120. · Model · Biological and CBRN · Loss of control · Primary source

    Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

    Sources: [78]

  121. · Warning · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Primary source

    Anthropic publishes When AI builds itself

    Sources: [75]

  122. · Policy · Biological and CBRN · Primary source

    Open letter for mandatory nucleic acid synthesis screening

    Sources: [944] · [723] · [101] · [364]

  123. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    An OpenAI agent infiltrates the Australian government's Medicare portal; the government found out three months later

    Sources: [115] · [421]

  124. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    An internal OpenAI model cheats, twice disobeys a researcher, and publishes the researcher's GitHub token in a public repository

    Sources: [830]

  125. · Evaluation · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    A forensic analysis attributes tactical-edge autonomy to a Russian drone

    Sources: [300] · [385] (archived copy only)

  126. · Policy · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    Baltimore sues X Corp. and xAI over Grok's sexualized images

    Sources: [112]

  127. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    Bloomberg: the Pentagon's internal investigation partly blames overreliance on Palantir's Maven system for the missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab

    Sources: [8] · [454]

  128. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The Pentagon-Anthropic dispute over autonomous weapons and surveillance

    Sources: [290] (archived copy only) · [77]

  129. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0 takes effect

    Sources: [84] · [465] · [928]

  130. · Warning · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Investigation documents 83 big-tech lobbying visits to Brazil's Congress while PL 2338 is pending

    Sources: [88]

  131. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Primary source

    METR publishes Time Horizon 1.1 with an expanded suite

    Sources: [712] · [713]

  132. · Incident · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Mass generation of non-consensual sexualized images with Grok

    Sources: [205] · [809] (archived copy only) · [112]

  133. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    GTG-1002, the first largely AI-executed espionage campaign

    Sources: [70] · [738] · [148]

  134. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Primary source

    Emergent misalignment from reward hacking in production RL

    Sources: [666]

  135. · Evaluation · Biological and CBRN · Primary source

    A synthesis-screening evasion found via AI protein design is patched

    Sources: [1114] · [723]

  136. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    A self-review with no access to customer data is not a verification

    Sources: [722] · [721] · [671] (archived copy only)

  137. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Primary source

    Palisade documents shutdown resistance in frontier models

    Sources: [836]

  138. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Big Sleep reports its first twenty vulnerabilities in open-source software

    Sources: [460]

  139. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Meta declines to sign the EU code of practice

    Sources: [256] · [212] · [1061]

  140. · Evaluation · Economic and labor · Primary source

    A randomized trial finds AI made experienced developers slower

    Sources: [707]

  141. · Policy · Biological and CBRN · Loss of control · Primary source

    Claude Opus 4 deploys under the ASL-3 standard as a precautionary measure

    Sources: [68] · [72]

  142. · Policy · Economic and labor · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The US–UAE AI agreement asks nothing about model safety

    Sources: [1098] · [271] (archived copy only)

  143. · Incident · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    Deployment and rollback of a sycophantic GPT-4o update

    Sources: [819] (archived copy only) · [1112]

  144. · Warning · Loss of control · Primary source

    The AI 2027 scenario is published

    Sources: [602]

  145. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Primary source

    METR publishes the first task time-horizon series

    Sources: [709]

  146. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Commercial general-purpose models inside a military targeting cycle

    Sources: [89] (archived copy only) · [721] · [669] (archived copy only)

  147. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Primary source

    Alignment faking in large language models

    Sources: [473]

  148. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Biden and Xi affirm human control over nuclear weapons employment

    Sources: [1097]

  149. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Cybench sets the autonomous ceiling on capture-the-flag tasks

    Sources: [1138]

  150. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Fang et al. measure autonomous exploitation of one-day vulnerabilities

    Sources: [392]

  151. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Primary source

    Sleeper Agents shows safety training does not remove a backdoor

    Sources: [528]

  152. · Warning · Epistemic and information · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The Stochastic Parrots authors respond to the pause letter

    Sources: [305] · [126]

  153. · Warning · Loss of control · Primary source

    Yudkowsky calls for shutting development down in Time

    Sources: [1132]

153
People's Republic of China
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Chinese state media expects China and the US to define the scope and process of AI incident notification in November

    Sources: [509]

  2. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Proofpoint documents China-aligned hackers impersonating a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official to spy on US AI policy experts

    Sources: [871]

  3. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Anthropic finds Chinese open-weight model GLM-5.3 nearly matches its own unreleased model at building cyberattacks, with safeguards bypassed up to 100% of the time

    Sources: [138]

  4. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    A Reuters investigation finds AI agents running Chinese models learn to lie, hide failures and self-replicate in tests

    Sources: [56]

  5. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    After the summit, Trump and Xi agree on an AI-incident channel and, per the White House, adopt the term «superintelligence»; Trump rules out slowing down the US

    Sources: [204]

  6. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    On his first Washington visit in more than a decade, Xi tells Trump AI must stay under human control; Trump wants to leave superintelligence «exactly where it is»

    Sources: [406]

  7. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Bessent confirms an AI «incident line» with China, a new meeting in Shenzhen in two months, and says Hugging Face «is OpenAI management's responsibility»

    Sources: [905] · [776] · [1029]

  8. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Economic and labor · No primary source

    Frontier model release cycles shrink from 125 to 44 days as AI itself does more of the R&D

    Sources: [137]

  9. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    In New York, China and the US «hold a dialogue on AI» ahead of the summit: Washington speaks of a notification mechanism; Beijing gives one line

    Sources: [1124] · [717] · [986] · [776] · [905]

  10. · Model · Economic and labor · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    China Telecom releases Xing4.0-29B: code agent trained on Ascend, tuned for OpenClaw, on a single GPU

    Sources: [177]

  11. · Framework · Loss of control · Primary source

    China has a MANDATORY national agent-security standard in the works: identity, least privilege, human intervention and emergency shutdown

    Sources: [933] · [987] · [1015]

  12. · Model · Economic and labor · Loss of control · No primary source

    Z.AI launches GLM-5.3-FlashX: 200 tokens/s served from a 100,000-domestic-chip cluster

    Sources: [961]

  13. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    CNN: a false AI-made intelligence report nearly led the US to board a Chinese ship; Beijing says it is not aware

    Sources: [265] · [717]

  14. · Model · Economic and labor · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash cuts audio cost by over 98%: the whole meeting as agent input

    Sources: [879] · [876]

  15. · Framework · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    TC260 opens consultation on China's security guide for developing agents: execution limits, goal drift and human control

    Sources: [1012] · [933]

  16. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    NIST confirms China's Z.ai GLM-5.3 is the most offensively cyber-capable open-weight model to date

    Sources: [795]

  17. · Framework · Loss of control · Primary source

    Version 3.0 of China's technical framework puts agents at the centre of loss-of-control risk

    Sources: [1014] · [183]

  18. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    China rejects the call to pace the frontier as "fear-mongering"

    Sources: [415]

  19. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · Primary source

    Xi proposes a BRICS open-source AI community

    Sources: [414] · [264] · [1024]

  20. · Incident · Biological and CBRN · Loss of control · No primary source

    Mindgard jailbreaks Moonshot's Kimi models and obtains instructions on bioweapons and assassinations; Moonshot only responded after the BBC asked for comment

    Sources: [117]

  21. · Model · Economic and labor · Loss of control · Primary source

    DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash (552 billion parameters, MIT licence) with no safety section and routes all V4-Pro traffic to the smaller model

    Sources: [324] · [325]

  22. · Evaluation · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Anthropic's threat report documents dual-use biology and state distillation

    Sources: [86] · [114] · [904] · [326]

  23. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · Loss of control · Primary source

    China's Supreme People's Court issues the first judicial rules document for AI disputes, with an open-source exemption

    Sources: [983] · [984]

  24. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    China investigates DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic's report accuses them of distilling Claude using sensitive data

    Sources: [909]

  25. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    China tightens regulation of AI-made short films: mandatory labelling and removal of 68,000 non-compliant videos

    Sources: [1083]

  26. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    China's generative AI registry reaches models running on the phone

    Sources: [186] · [188] · [185]

  27. · Warning · Loss of control · Primary source

    Two Chinese labs go public and catastrophic risk changes section

    Sources: [1141] · [729]

  28. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    China's five-year plan places AI beside nuclear and biological, as national security

    Sources: [846]

  29. · Framework · Loss of control · Biological and CBRN · Primary source

    China's technical framework does name loss-of-control risk, and binds nobody

    Sources: [1011] · [180]

  30. · Policy · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    China's mandatory labelling standard for synthetic content takes effect

    Sources: [932] · [182]

  31. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · Primary source

    China's State Council sets its AI policy without naming loss of control

    Sources: [277]

  32. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Biological and CBRN · Primary source

    A Chinese public lab evaluates dangerous capabilities with declared red lines

    Sources: [964] · [965]

  33. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    China's industry signs safety commitments that never name capability risk

    Sources: [28] · [917]

  34. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Biden and Xi affirm human control over nuclear weapons employment

    Sources: [1097]

  35. · Incident · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Reverse engineering of the Xinjiang mass surveillance platform

    Sources: [524]

35
United Kingdom
  1. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    The UK's AI Security Institute measures GPT-6 Astra, with its classifiers turned off, conducting unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of its simulations

    Sources: [40]

  2. · Warning · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Primary source

    22 authors, including senior figures at OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, Hinton and Bengio, warn that automating AI R&D could trigger an «intelligence explosion»

    Sources: [231] · [562]

  3. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    Ukraine will share battlefield data with UK companies to develop AI-driven drone swarms

    Sources: [1143]

  4. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic not to give new models to the UK institute before a US review; Anthropic did not give it Claude Mythos 5.1

    Sources: [404]

  5. · Warning · Loss of control · No primary source

    More than 12 researchers at frontier labs quit in two years, citing AI's pace

    Sources: [875] · [333]

  6. · Warning · Loss of control · Biological and CBRN · No primary source

    The Alan Turing Institute sees a «realistic possibility» of superintelligent AI within five years and warns human control could disappear

    Sources: [783]

  7. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    DeepMind launches its AGI essay platform: Hassabis details the standards body and Shah-Dragan warn the reasoning-monitoring window is closing

    Sources: [320] · [497] · [963]

  8. · Warning · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    King Charles III gathers OpenAI, DeepMind, Nvidia and Anthropic and uses existential language: «sufficient means of control before it is all too late»

    Sources: [90]

  9. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The UK AI minister says «nothing is off the table», without saying which measure is under study

    Sources: [740] · [250] · [539]

  10. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    OpenAI confirms weeks of safety-standards talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind

    Sources: [1018] · [35]

  11. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The UK government says ministers must heed the experts' warnings

    Sources: [487]

  12. · Warning · Loss of control · No primary source

    Two former DeepMind safety members publish their warnings

    Sources: [900] · [552]

  13. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    UK parliamentary committee: no regulator has systematic powers to stop a risky model's deployment

    Sources: [579] (archived copy only) · [667] · [571] · [485]

  14. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI asks the UK for binding legislation covering only frontier models

    Sources: [862]

  15. · Incident · Biological and CBRN · Loss of control · No primary source

    Mindgard jailbreaks Moonshot's Kimi models and obtains instructions on bioweapons and assassinations; Moonshot only responded after the BBC asked for comment

    Sources: [117]

  16. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    74 UK parliamentarians urge the Prime Minister to adopt a superintelligence ban and take it to the G20; the government rejects the approach

    Sources: [279] · [539]

  17. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    An MP tables a bill in Westminster to ban superintelligence; the government rejects the approach

    Sources: [839] (archived copy only) · [539]

  18. · Warning · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    The UK government tells Parliament that AI agents circumvented controls, broke out of an isolated environment and coordinated by the hundreds

    Sources: [770] (archived copy only)

  19. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Microsoft dismantles EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing service that breached more than 12,000 email accounts

    Sources: [1085]

  20. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    The UK AISI publishes an incident of agents acting against real targets

    Sources: [41]

  21. · Policy · Biological and CBRN · Primary source

    Open letter for mandatory nucleic acid synthesis screening

    Sources: [944] · [723] · [101] · [364]

  22. · Framework · Biological and CBRN · Loss of control · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    Google DeepMind updates its Frontier Safety Framework to version 3.1

    Sources: [317] · [316]

  23. · Evaluation · Military and autonomous weapons · Loss of control · Primary source

    King's College London study: three frontier models engage in nuclear signaling in every crisis simulation and none chooses to yield

    Sources: [843] · [588] · [1093]

  24. · Evaluation · Loss of control · Primary source

    Apollo Research documents in-context scheming

    Sources: [690]

24
Russian Federation
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Putin orders centralised data collection to train Russia's «sovereign» AI models

    Sources: [982]

  2. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Putin places AI and uncrewed robotic systems next to the nuclear triad in the new State Armament Programme

    Sources: [613]

  3. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Putin orders an AI roadmap for Russian public transport, due 1 December

    Sources: [612] · [910]

  4. · Evaluation · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Anthropic's threat report documents dual-use biology and state distillation

    Sources: [86] · [114] · [904] · [326]

  5. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The Washington Post: US and Russia got human review of targets and ethical considerations stripped from the UN's draft on lethal autonomous weapons

    Sources: [1094] · [1142]

  6. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Russia's first federal AI law takes effect, with a "traditional values" requirement

    Sources: [688] · [379]

  7. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    A Molniya drone kills three civilians in Zaporizhzhia

    Sources: [814] · [385] (archived copy only) · [299] · [208]

  8. · Evaluation · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    A forensic analysis attributes tactical-edge autonomy to a Russian drone

    Sources: [300] · [385] (archived copy only)

  9. · Evaluation · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    How much models repeat a disinformation network, measured three times with different results

    Sources: [785] · [60] · [330] · [100]

  10. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Russia puts its military AI under a presidential commission, outside the ethics code

    Sources: [611] · [610] · [50]

10
Israel
  1. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Gemini accessed three real companies' systems during a safety test; Irregular confirms all four breakouts were one evaluator failure

    Sources: [340] · [503] · [1044] · [51] · [1127]

  2. · Incident · Political and power concentration · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    Rafael's terrain-detection AI (ImiSight) used to justify West Bank demolitions

    Sources: [53]

  3. · Warning · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Israel's national cyber directorate: AI already runs 28 of 32 attack steps on its own, in 27 seconds

    Sources: [560] · [1126]

  4. · Incident · Epistemic and information · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Israel funds a fake think-tank campaign to bias what chatbots answer

    Sources: [1129]

  5. · Policy · Economic and labor · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Israel presents its national compute plan to the Knesset: 100,000 accelerators and 20,000 MW requested

    Sources: [600] · [870] · [568]

  6. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    A self-review with no access to customer data is not a verification

    Sources: [722] · [721] · [671] (archived copy only)

  7. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Commercial general-purpose models inside a military targeting cycle

    Sources: [89] (archived copy only) · [721] · [669] (archived copy only)

  8. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    The Lavender investigation in Gaza

    Sources: [670] (archived copy only)

8
Australia
  1. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    OpenAI publicly apologises to Australia and reveals its agents accessed at least four Australian government bodies without authorisation

    Sources: [1019]

  2. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    An Australian Senate inquiry asks Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to appear, days after an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to a Medicare system

    Sources: [604] · [261]

  3. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Primary source

    Transluce documents more intrusion attempts by agents it links to OpenAI, in May and June, and related activity since March 2026 that may still be going on in September

    Sources: [1045] · [424]

  4. · Policy · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Australia: national-security leaders urge conditioning local training on early access to frontier models

    Sources: [19]

  5. · Policy · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Australia publishes its consultation on national AI standards, with mandatory incident reporting

    Sources: [858] · [10]

  6. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    An OpenAI agent infiltrates the Australian government's Medicare portal; the government found out three months later

    Sources: [115] · [421]

6
South Korea
  1. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    AI may have helped breach South Korea's Shinhan Bank, exposing about 25,000 customers' data

    Sources: [784]

  2. · Warning · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    South Korea's AI safety institute has 6 technical evaluators; the UK's has around 200 staff

    Sources: [44]

  3. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    South Korea deploys a generative-AI operating system on its joint command-and-control network in a pilot, for the first time

    Sources: [139]

  4. · Evaluation · Loss of control · No primary source

    Korea's AISI evaluates frontier models with 16 GPUs: 7 to 10 days per model against more than 10 new models a month

    Sources: [45]

  5. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Korea's Deputy Prime Minister rejects slowing the frontier: «we have no room to slow down AI»

    Sources: [764] · [63] · [283]

  6. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    South Korea's AI framework act takes effect, with a three-condition threshold and no fines

    Sources: [283] · [282] · [569] · [296] · [725]

6
India
  1. · Policy · Biological and CBRN · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    India's drug regulator creates an expert committee to evaluate and regulate AI in healthcare

    Sources: [382]

  2. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · Primary source

    Xi proposes a BRICS open-source AI community

    Sources: [414] · [264] · [1024]

  3. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments open the India summit

    Sources: [854] (archived copy only) · [1021]

  4. · Policy · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    India mandates labelling of synthetic content and takedown within three hours

    Sources: [691] · [546]

  5. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · Primary source

    India chooses responsible innovation over caution, and sets no threshold

    Sources: [856] (archived copy only) · [852] (archived copy only) · [686]

5
Ukraine
  1. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    Ukraine will share battlefield data with UK companies to develop AI-driven drone swarms

    Sources: [1143]

  2. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Ukraine tests SPECTR, an AI platform to plan operations and anticipate enemy moves, in combat units

    Sources: [741] · [1063]

  3. · Policy · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    OpenAI will give Ukraine free access to Daybreak to defend civilian infrastructure from Russian cyberattacks

    Sources: [1128]

  4. · Evaluation · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Anthropic's threat report documents dual-use biology and state distillation

    Sources: [86] · [114] · [904] · [326]

  5. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    A Molniya drone kills three civilians in Zaporizhzhia

    Sources: [814] · [385] (archived copy only) · [299] · [208]

5
Vietnam
  1. · Policy · Loss of control · Economic and labor · No primary source

    Hanoi authorises a 24-month sandbox for autonomous transport in Hoa Lac

    Sources: [1091]

  2. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Vietnam puts its one-stop AI portal into operation, with a serious-incident reporting function

    Sources: [763] · [1081]

  3. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Vietnam lists 46 high-risk AI systems; 31 are in transport

    Sources: [762]

  4. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Vietnam sets by decree a 72-hour deadline to report certain serious AI incidents, without waiting for the technical investigation

    Sources: [1081] · [1082]

  5. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Vietnam enacts its AI law: risk classification, incidents and conformity assessment; in force since March 2026

    Sources: [1082] · [1080] · [1081]

5
Canada
  1. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Transluce reports what would be the first known attempted AI-agent cyberattack against the Canadian government

    Sources: [54]

  2. · Incident · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Investigation reveals ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge shooter with tactics and weapons on an undetected second account

    Sources: [757]

  3. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    British Columbia sues OpenAI and Altman over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting

    Sources: [345] · [565]

  4. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Canada and Germany commit up to CAD 300 million to LawZero and its non-agentic «Scientist AI»

    Sources: [629] · [251]

4
Japan
  1. · Incident · Economic and labor · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    A Japanese voice actor sues TikTok to have it remove videos with a voice he says is an AI clone of his own

    Sources: [634] (could not be checked)

  2. · Policy · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Japan approves its second AI Basic Plan: focus on agents and autonomous cyberattacks, no existential-risk vocabulary

    Sources: [577] · [578]

  3. · Framework · Loss of control · Primary source

    Japan's AI Safety Institute pivots towards agents

    Sources: [572]

  4. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Japan's basic AI plan talks about risk, but not the catastrophic kind

    Sources: [576] · [574]

4
United Arab Emirates
  1. · Model · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    UAE's sovereign cyber defence becomes product: V7 model, specialised cybersecurity LLM and encrypted inference

    Sources: [358] · [1092] · [281] · [55]

  2. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The Iran war forces the UAE to redesign its 5 GW AI campus as a military target

    Sources: [901]

  3. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · Primary source

    The first declared cryptographic compute verification is audited by whoever runs it

    Sources: [436]

  4. · Policy · Economic and labor · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The US–UAE AI agreement asks nothing about model safety

    Sources: [1098] · [271] (archived copy only)

4
Brazil
  1. · Policy · Epistemic and information · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Brazil defines an electoral deepfake —realism plus propaganda— and lets the synthetic Bolsonaro of the PL convention through

    Sources: [1055] · [582] · [812]

  2. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Brazil creates the Joint Parliamentary AI Front to monitor the ANPD and the EBIA

    Sources: [953] · [276]

  3. · Warning · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Investigation documents 83 big-tech lobbying visits to Brazil's Congress while PL 2338 is pending

    Sources: [88]

3
Holy See (Vatican City State)
  1. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Pope Leo XIV says AI risks are not «fake news» and need to be discussed, in contrast with Trump, who calls them a «hoax»

    Sources: [844]

  2. · Warning · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The Holy See tells the UN that the decision to use lethal force must not be delegated to opaque or automated processes

    Sources: [936] · [1077]

  3. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Pope Leo XIV warns against losing humanity in a «paradise of machines» and against AI amplifying misinformation

    Sources: [174]

3
Islamic Republic of Iran
  1. · Policy · Economic and labor · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Iran opens AI service licensing, and the Tehran Chamber of Commerce asks to suspend it over monopoly risk

    Sources: [1144] · [593]

  2. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The Iran war forces the UAE to redesign its 5 GW AI campus as a military target

    Sources: [901]

  3. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    Bloomberg: the Pentagon's internal investigation partly blames overreliance on Palantir's Maven system for the missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab

    Sources: [8] · [454]

3
Kenya
  1. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Nigeria and partners launch ATLAS Umoja AI: model infrastructure for Africa's 2,000+ languages

    Sources: [477] · [775]

  2. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Kenya opens consultation on its draft AI policy: a regulator with an explicit mandate to evaluate frontier models

    Sources: [745] (archived copy only) · [744] (archived copy only) · [988]

  3. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    First reading of Kenya's AI Bill: creates an AI Commissioner parallel to —and disconnected from— the ministerial policy

    Sources: [591] · [838] · [1020] · [766]

3
Taiwan, Province of China
  1. · Policy · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Taiwan takes its «sovereign AI» agenda to Washington, reporting 2.6 million daily cyberattacks

    Sources: [1008]

  2. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Taiwan adopts an AI risk-classification framework: 20 subtypes, inherent risk; defence excluded

    Sources: [1010]

  3. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · Primary source

    Taiwan passes the lightest AI law exactly where the physical bottleneck sits

    Sources: [1009] · [1007] · [1056] · [1050]

3
France
  1. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Pope Leo XIV warns against losing humanity in a «paradise of machines» and against AI amplifying misinformation

    Sources: [174]

  2. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    France convenes the UN Security Council on AI and international security for 23 September, with Altman briefing

    Sources: [898] · [635]

2
Germany
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Canada and Germany commit up to CAD 300 million to LawZero and its non-agentic «Scientist AI»

    Sources: [629] · [251]

  2. · Warning · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Germany's digital minister proposes an IAEA for the most powerful AI models

    Sources: [1137]

2
Hong Kong
  1. · Warning · Loss of control · Primary source

    Two Chinese labs go public and catastrophic risk changes section

    Sources: [1141] · [729]

  2. · Incident · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Synthetic video call fraud against Arup in Hong Kong

    Sources: [29]

2
Italy
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Italy makes it a crime to omit safety measures or human oversight on a high-risk AI system

    Sources: [479] · [451]

  2. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Economic and labor · No primary source

    Fraudsters with an AI-cloned voice and a fake WhatsApp message move almost €95 million out of Fideuram, an Intesa Sanpaolo subsidiary; per the case file, €39.5 million is still missing

    Sources: [67]

2
Mexico
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Sheinbaum calls for regulating AI in electoral processes: «one of the main challenges»

    Sources: [278] · [457]

  2. · Incident · Epistemic and information · No primary source

    Mexico: AI cloning accusation against government-linked accounts — authorship not established

    Sources: [915]

2
New Zealand
  1. · Warning · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    New Zealand's cyber security centre warns that by early 2027 malicious actors may gain access to AI capabilities now available only through frontier models

    Sources: [781]

  2. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    New Zealand: the Labour opposition promises an AI office and regulator if it wins the election

    Sources: [918]

2
Peru
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Peru approves its 2026-2030 national AI strategy: an AI Officer in every public entity

    Sources: [356]

  2. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    Biden and Xi affirm human control over nuclear weapons employment

    Sources: [1097]

2
Singapore
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Singapore proposes a UN framework convention on AI safety

    Sources: [1086]

  2. · Warning · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Singapore's digital minister calls for aviation-style safeguards for AI

    Sources: [253]

2
Spain
  1. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Renfe and Adif acknowledge an intrusion with data theft; investigators are looking into whether the group used AI to find the way in

    Sources: [896] · [557] · [354] · [1123] · [746]

  2. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Spain logs the first data breach executed by an AI agent: full autonomous chain

    Sources: [18]

2
State of Palestine
  1. · Incident · Political and power concentration · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    Rafael's terrain-detection AI (ImiSight) used to justify West Bank demolitions

    Sources: [53]

  2. · Incident · Military and autonomous weapons · No primary source

    The Lavender investigation in Gaza

    Sources: [670] (archived copy only)

2
Argentina
  1. · Policy · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Primary source

    Argentina proposes «automated companies» run by AI agents with no human staff; in September the global alarm stalls them in the Senate

    Sources: [951] · [623] · [558] · [556]

1
Bahrain
  1. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    The Iran war forces the UAE to redesign its 5 GW AI campus as a military target

    Sources: [901]

1
Benin
  1. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Nigeria and partners launch ATLAS Umoja AI: model infrastructure for Africa's 2,000+ languages

    Sources: [477] · [775]

1
Chile
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Chile's government announces it is abandoning the European risk-based model for regulating AI

    Sources: [950] · [1006] · [954]

1
Colombia
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Colombia names David Vélez (Nubank) honorary AI adviser: «the first AI-native country»

    Sources: [353]

1
Egypt
  1. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    Egypt adopts a governance framework that reclassifies systemic-risk general-purpose models as high-risk and exempts national security

    Sources: [780]

1
Indonesia
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Indonesia: two presidential AI regulations, with prohibited uses and uses under strict oversight, await Prabowo's signature

    Sources: [947] · [1003]

1
Malaysia
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Malaysia takes its AI governance bill to cabinet; to Parliament by the first quarter of 2027 at the latest

    Sources: [133]

1
Mali
  1. · Incident · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    A consultant for Mali's intelligence service used Claude to build a surveillance platform over 25 million SIMs without a court order

    Sources: [86] · [172]

1
Morocco
  1. · Policy · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    Morocco bans misleading AI-generated electoral content on radio and television ahead of the 23 September legislative elections

    Sources: [491] · [59]

1
Namibia
  1. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Nigeria and partners launch ATLAS Umoja AI: model infrastructure for Africa's 2,000+ languages

    Sources: [477] · [775]

1
Nigeria
  1. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Nigeria and partners launch ATLAS Umoja AI: model infrastructure for Africa's 2,000+ languages

    Sources: [477] · [775]

1
Saudi Arabia
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Riyadh's GAIN summit was rescheduled to 2027; the one closing with a declaration was UNESCO's ethics forum

    Sources: [981] · [1067] · [92] · [979]

1
South Africa
  1. · Incident · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    South Africa withdraws its national AI policy: several of its 67 academic references were AI-fabricated citations

    Sources: [64] · [310] · [309] · [747]

1
Togo
  1. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Nigeria and partners launch ATLAS Umoja AI: model infrastructure for Africa's 2,000+ languages

    Sources: [477] · [775]

1
Türkiye
  1. · Policy · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Turkey: parliament's AI commission chair rejects «putting the brakes» on the technology

    Sources: [1057]

1
Uruguay
  1. · Policy · Economic and labor · No primary source

    Uruguay inaugurates its National AI Centre: small specialised models, not competing with GPT-6

    Sources: [1074] · [175]

1

No country: 28

  1. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    PixelLeak: AI coding agents uploaded more than 13,000 internal screenshots from more than 300 organisations to public GitHub

    Sources: [840]

  2. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    The European Commission tells Trump it will keep pushing global AI safety rules despite US opposition

    Sources: [861]

  3. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The OECD's Working Group on Agentic AI in Government warns that agent capabilities are advancing faster than their governance

    Sources: [810]

  4. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    Bengio tells the UN Security Council that frontier AI should require a licence and liability insurance

    Sources: [1072] · [891]

  5. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    Cisco Talos describes CLOSEDQUORUM, the first implant that consults several AI models to decide its next move

    Sources: [302]

  6. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    The declaration for human control of AI adds France on 23 September and its list reaches 26 countries

    Sources: [848]

  7. · Incident · Epistemic and information · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    Gartner survey: 41% of CISOs had at least one deepfake social-engineering incident on an audio call in 12 months

    Sources: [505] · [774]

  8. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · No primary source

    More than 20 countries, with Germany and von der Leyen, call at the UN for binding controls and permanent human oversight of AI

    Sources: [636]

  9. · Warning · Loss of control · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    UN independent scientific panel says the three factors of loss of control came together in the agent attack on Hugging Face

    Sources: [1065] · [1066] · [1071]

  10. · Policy · Economic and labor · Political and power concentration · No primary source

    Philippines aligns regional AI cooperation within ASEAN's digital economy framework agreement

    Sources: [1005]

  11. · Framework · Loss of control · Primary source

    Over a hundred evaluators — Hinton, Russell, Kokotajlo, METR staff — set five conditions for credible «embedded» evaluation inside labs

    Sources: [17] · [258]

  12. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    Von der Leyen joins «pace the frontier» at the State of the Union: evaluation, verification and early warning with the UK and Canada

    Sources: [222]

  13. · Evaluation · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · No primary source

    ENISA gets access to Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra and finds four flaws in EU code: the first operational result of regulatory access

    Sources: [860] · [386] · [383]

  14. · Warning · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    The UN High Commissioner calls for banning weapons that kill without human intervention

    Sources: [814]

  15. · Policy · Military and autonomous weapons · Primary source

    The CCW group of experts closes without a negotiating mandate

    Sources: [208] · [526] · [903]

  16. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · No primary source

    A lone operator, using three open-source AI agents, steals more than 600,000 credit cards for about $25 per company

    Sources: [301] · [816]

  17. · Policy · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    The EU confirms its first formal requests for information to AI model providers

    Sources: [1090] · [2] · [384]

  18. · Policy · Epistemic and information · Political and power concentration · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    The EU AI Act's enforcement powers begin

    Sources: [1061] · [217] · [1062] · [24] · [22]

  19. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    The simplification package postpones high-risk rules and leaves the frontier untouched

    Sources: [1062] · [219] · [346] · [409]

  20. · Incident · Biological and CBRN · No primary source

    The OECD logs chatbots that provided biological weapons instructions

    Sources: [811]

  21. · Incident · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    Microsoft documents JADEPUFFER's attack on Azure: 100+ attempts to delete storage accounts in about 7 minutes using compromised identities

    Sources: [724]

  22. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    The EU appoints its scientific panel of sixty independent experts

    Sources: [220] · [218]

  23. · Framework · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Loss of control · Economic and labor · Epistemic and information · Primary source

    Second edition of the International AI Safety Report

    Sources: [538] · [1108]

  24. · Framework · Loss of control · Political and power concentration · Primary source

    ASEAN establishes its «AI safety network»: voluntary and non-binding, capacity-building, not oversight

    Sources: [98] · [416] · [99] · [33]

  25. · Framework · Political and power concentration · Loss of control · Primary source

    The EU publishes the code of practice for general-purpose AI models

    Sources: [212] · [1061] · [837]

  26. · Policy · Political and power concentration · Economic and labor · Primary source

    European executives ask to put the AI Act on a two-year clock-stop

    Sources: [26] · [837]

  27. · Warning · Loss of control · Biological and CBRN · Cybersecurity and infrastructure · Primary source

    CAIS Statement on AI Risk

    Sources: [190]

  28. · Warning · Loss of control · Primary source

    Carlsmith formalizes the power-seeking AI argument

    Sources: [196]

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