What a week! IASEAI 2026 in Paris was one of those experiences that lingers. With 1200 attendees, from pioneers like Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton to researchers from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and my former university in Edinburgh, the conference was a hub of intense discussion. As someone who spent years in AI regulation and governance and served on the review committee for this conference, I knew that the topics that would be discussed are not always