A United Nations scientific panel warned that artificial intelligence is outpacing the world's ability to govern it, releasing its first independent assessment this month. The Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, a body of 40 independent experts co-chaired by Filipino Maria Ressa and Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, presented findings in New York on July 1. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the panel is intended “to help the world separate fact from fakes, and science from slop.” The UN General Assembly created the panel through Resolution 79/325 in 2025, but its experts were appointed in February 2026. The panel documents evidence without making recommendations. AI capabilities have roughly doubled their rate of improvement since April 2024. Over a billion people now use conversational AI every week. Of computing power in the world’s 500 largest AI supercomputers, 75 percent is in the United States and 15 percent is in China. US institutions produced 59 notable AI models in 2025, China produced 35, and the rest of the world produced 13 combined. 91 percent of those models came from private companies. The report counts 118 countries not engaged in major AI governance discussions. Fewer than a third of developing countries have a national AI strategy. The panel noted that in the Tigrinya language, machine translation rendered “smallpox” as “syphilis” and changed intravenous antibiotics into intravenous insecticides.