2026-W42 · +2.8
This week's AI Midnight assessment rises modestly, driven mainly by real-world agent incidents and reports of AI being used in violent or extremist planning. The strongest signals are not extinction-level events, but practical failures: agents accessing systems they should not, leaking internal data, and chatbots being misused in harmful planning. Governance shows a small improvement because European and US bodies appear to be responding, though safeguards remain partial and reactive. Evidence for explosive AI acceleration remains mixed, with one source reporting that current systems do not yet automate AI R&D.
A conventional composite index, not a scientific probability of extinction.