Scientists Seek Global Oversight Body for Advanced AI Security

Gdansk, 13 October 2026 – About 400 scientists from 34 countries have called for an international body to oversee the security of advanced artificial-intelligence systems, arguing that voluntary company commitments do not provide consistent protection against increasingly capable models. The signatories include prominent researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.

Their proposal centres on common containment standards and a registry of serious security incidents. The researchers want the most capable cyber-enabled models to be isolated from external networks during early testing, with independent supervision before broader deployment. Major incidents would be recorded and, over time, disclosed publicly so that governments and developers can learn from failures rather than repeat them.