2026-W09 · +0.2
This week’s AI Midnight assessment rises slightly mainly because several research papers reported new ways to bypass or stress-test AI safety safeguards. The evidence is mostly from lab or benchmark settings, not from catastrophic real-world events. One documented school deepfake incident shows continued social harm, but at a local rather than systemic scale. Governance evidence remains mixed: proposed safety tools are useful, but the dossier does not show strong binding oversight.
A conventional composite index, not a scientific probability of extinction.