When should an AI incident trigger an international response? Criteria for international escalation and implications for the design of AI incident frameworks

Research Team Lead: Francesca GomezIn collaboration with Caio V. Machado (The Future Society)Arcadia Impact AI Governance Taskforce (Winter 2026 cohort)Main insight: Thresholds and triggers for international escalation can be designed to isolate incidents requiring cross-border coordination for containment, mitigation, and shared response. For these to be operational in practice, it must be clear on what constitutes an incident across all AI risk domains, including patterns of incidents, and on ...