International coordination
Countries agreeing on what frontier AI must and must not do.
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Facts
- Lane
- Security and geopolitics
- Wave
- 7 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 0 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 2 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- 0.2 points · stands in the way of 1 of 53 stages · rank 42 of 57
- Cluster
- Compute governance and geopolitics
Evidence as of October 2026
The 2026 International AI Safety Report, led by Yoshua Bengio with an advisory panel nominated by more than 30 countries, finds safety frameworks spreading but "significant gaps" in safeguards.
Detail boxes 1
US–China AI dialogue
Direct talks between the two leading AI powers.
The first formal talks took place on 20 September 2026. The US proposed an AI incident alert system, and no agreement was signed.
Around it
Needs · 0
Nothing beyond the detail list. It can start at any time.
Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting
Startup room 25/100 · rank 120 of 124 Research room 38/100 · rank 96 of 124
- Depth
- light
- Players
- UN Global Dialogue and Scientific Panel; India AI Impact Summit; International AI Safety Report
- Wedge
- Institutional designs that yield binding or verifiable commitments with partial US participation. research