Comment by Mark Brakel

Policy director, Future of Life Institute
So many risks, from child safety to national security risks to loss of control, were discussed in the corridors with greater urgency than ever but didn't make it to the official outcome. AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified Checked all dimensions. Year: 2026 (current; India AI Impact Summit, Feb 2026). Author: Mark Brakel, Director/Global Director of Policy at the Future of Life Institute — correctly attributed. Vote alignment: statement "Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation" with a "for" vote is directionally consistent — Brakel laments that serious risks ("child safety to national security risks to loss of control") were "discussed in the corridors with greater urgency than ever but didn't make it to the official outcome" of the New Delhi Declaration, reflecting FLI's well-documented push for stronger, formal/binding international AI-safety governance. Caveat: the quote criticizes the summit's weak official outcome rather than explicitly endorsing a "binding treaty," so the alignment is at the level of FLI's pro-binding-governance stance rather than the exact mechanism; the directional "for" is appropriate. Source: direct fetch of fortune.com returns HTTP 403 to automated requests, but an independent web search confirmed the verbatim quote attributed to Brakel in this exact Fortune article (also mirrored at dnyuz.com), confirming the source contains the quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20h ago
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