Who Governs AI When the World Is Divided

Published on July 10, 2026 11:28 AM GMTFrom Bletchley to India, AI summits are maturing. But US-China rivalry, ungoverned agentic systems, and structural coordination failures threaten to fracture the architecture before it sets.By Cyrus Hodes, Founder, AI Safety ConnectAI governance is at an inflection point. The summits are multiplying, the declarations are accumulating, and the institutions are slowly taking shape. But the harder question is whether any of it is actually building toward somet...