India AI Impact Summit 2026

AI Crisis Diplomacy: Governing AI in a Fragmented World, on 17 February at Bharat Mandapam, co-hosted with the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI. Stuart Russell, Audrey Tang, Yuko Harayama, Wan Sie Lee and Azizjon Azimi worked through plausible cross-border crisis scenarios, moderated by AISA’s Alejandro Reyes. The panel was supported by the briefing paper Sovereignty in the Stack and Coherence Cross-Stacks, written with the Future of Life Institute and Chatham House, and led to AISA’s AI crisis diplomacy workstream and the Geneva exercises that followed.

A second main-summit panel on AI at scale.

A side event on AI-enabled biosecurity risk in Asia, co-convened with INHR and the Atlantic Council.

The launch reception for the International AI Safety Report 2026, on 18 February at the High Commission of Canada in India, co-hosted with the High Commission, the UK AI Security Institute and Mila. The report’s authors presented, and Yoshua Bengio joined remotely.