Overview

India’s convening marks the fourth iteration of the global AI summits. Critical questions persist: Can voluntary and soft governance mechanisms ensure that rapidly advancing AI systems serve human well-being equitably across regions? How do we translate global frameworks into locally resonant yet scalable practice? And who defines the standards of safety, trust, and flourishing that frontier AI should uphold?

AI Safety Evaluations for Human Flourishing, a private breakfast dialogue co-hosted by AI Safety Connect and Humane Intelligence PBC, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brings together researchers, policymakers, and builders on the margins of the India AI Impact Summit to explore practical, equitable methodologies for evaluating AI systems.

The conversation builds on two complementary initiatives emerging from the Summit’s Safe & Trusted AI Working Group: 

• The Expert Engagement Group (EEG) on Frontier AI Model Usage and Voluntary Commitments, which analyzes where current approaches succeed and fall short in domains like multilingual evaluation, children’s safety, and incident monitoring; and 

• The newly launched Global South AI Safety Research Network, led by Digital Futures Lab and the Centre for Responsible AI - IIT Madras, which aims to embed frontier AI evaluation and accountability in diverse local contexts.

Together, these initiatives explore how voluntary commitments and research networks can reinforce one another in order to link the ethical intent of frontier AI governance with the empirical rigor of human impact measurement. Participants will surface implementation challenges at both technical and institutional levels and co-develop practical pathways for ensuring that AI safety evaluation frameworks advance not just system reliability, but human flourishing.