International AI Safety Report (October 2025)

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This is an official interim update to the landmark International AI Safety Report, a major intergovernmental reference document on AI safety risks; highly relevant for those tracking global AI governance and the evolving capabilities landscape as of late 2025.

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Summary

A focused interim update to the International AI Safety Report, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, covering significant developments in AI capabilities and their risk implications between full annual editions. The report is produced by an international panel of experts from over 30 countries and aims to keep policymakers and researchers current on fast-moving AI developments. It serves as an authoritative, consensus-oriented reference for AI safety governance.

Key Points

•Introduces 'Key Updates' as shorter, focused reports to bridge annual editions of the International AI Safety Report due to the rapid pace of AI development.
•Chaired by Yoshua Bengio with senior advisers including Hinton, Russell, Acemoglu, Narayanan, and Schölkopf, representing broad international expertise.
•Expert Advisory Panel spans representatives from 30+ countries and organizations including the UN, EU, and OECD, providing global governance relevance.
•Focuses specifically on AI capabilities advances and their risk implications as of late 2025, targeting policymakers and researchers.
•Deliberately avoids endorsing specific policy or regulatory approaches, aiming for technical objectivity and broad international applicability.

Cited by 3 pages

Page	Type	Quality
AI Capability Threshold Model	Analysis	72.0
Dangerous Capability Evaluations	Approach	64.0
AI Proliferation	Risk	60.0

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Contributors

##### Chair

**Prof. Yoshua Bengio,** Université de Montréal / LawZero / Mila - Quebec AI Institute

##### Expert Advisory Panel

The Expert Advisory Panel is an international advisory body that advises the Chair on the content of the Report. The Expert Advisory Panel provided technical feedback only. The Report – and its Expert Advisory Panel – does not endorse any particular policy or regulatory approach.

The Panel comprises representatives from over 30 countries and international organisations, including the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Please find here – internationalaisafetyreport.org/expert-advisory-panel – the membership of the Expert Advisory Panel to the 2026 International AI Safety Report.

##### Lead Writers

**Stephen Clare**

**Carina Prunkl**

##### Writing Group

**Maksym Andriushchenko,** Ellis Institute Tübingen

**Ben Bucknall,** University of Oxford

**Philip Fox,** KIRA Center

**Tiancheng Hu,** University of Cambridge

**Cameron Jones,** Stony Brook University

**Sam Manning,** Centre for the Governance of AI

**Nestor Maslej,** Stanford University

**Vasilios Mavroudis,** The Alan Turing Institute

**Conor McGlynn,** Harvard University

**Malcolm Murray,** SaferAI

**Shalaleh Rismani,** Mila - Quebec AI Institute

**Charlotte Stix,** Apollo Research

**Lucia Velasco,** Maastricht University

**Nicole Wheeler,** Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)

**Daniel Privitera** (Interim Lead), KIRA Center

**Sören Mindermann** (Interim Lead), independent

##### Senior Advisers

**Daron Acemoglu,** Massachusetts Institute of Technology

**Thomas G. Dietterich,** Oregon State University

**Fredrik Heintz,** Linköping University

**Geoffrey Hinton,** University of Toronto

**Nick Jennings,** Loughborough University

**Susan Leavy,** University College Dublin

**Teresa Ludermir,** Federal University of Pernambuco

**Vidushi Marda,** AI Collaborative

**Helen Margetts,** University of Oxford

**John McDermid,** University of York

**Jane Munga,** Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

**Arvind Narayanan,** Princeton University

**Alondra Nelson,** Institute for Advanced Study

**Clara Neppel,** IEEE

**Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn,** Responsible AI UK

**Stuart Russell,** University of California, Berkeley

**Marietje Schaake,** Stanford University

**Bernhard Schölkopf,** ELLIS Institute Tübingen

**Alvaro Soto,** Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

**Lee Tiedrich,** University of Maryland/Duke

**Gaël Varoquaux,** Inria

**Andrew Yao,** Tsinghua University

**Ya-Qin Zhang,** Tsinghua University

##### Secretariat

**UK AI Security Institute:** Lambrini Das, Claire Dennis, Arianna Dini, Freya Hempleman, Samuel Kenny, Patrick King, Hannah Merchant, Jamie-Day 

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