Forbes: As Davos & India Celebrated AI, Paris Sounded The Alarm On AI Safety
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While Davos networked, these people were working. The IASEAI team at IASEAI'26 in Paris, building the governance infrastructure the AI industry has not yet built for itself.
The most important AI governance meeting of 2026 was not in Davos. It was not in Mumbai. It happened in Paris, in a room most business leaders have never heard of, and what was said there should have landed on every board agenda going forward.
While executives networked in Switzerland and applauded India's AI ambitions, more than 800 researchers from 65 countries gathered at UNESCO House for IASEAI'26, the second annual conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI. They were not there to celebrate. They were there to name, precisely and on the record, what is already going wrong, and why the governance responses being proposed may not be adequate for the problem they are meant to solve.
What followed was the most honest three days in AI this year.