INFO’s Lee J. Tiedrich helps lead global efforts to address rapidly evolving AI risks in safety, cybersecurity, and policy
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A new “Key Update” to the International AI Safety Report, announced by Chair Yoshua Bengio, reveals that recent AI breakthroughs are directly accelerating risks in cybersecurity and biosecurity. This urgent assessment highlights the challenges of monitoring these rapidly evolving threats.
The International AI Safety Report, established in 2023 by 30 nations and bodies including the UN and EU, aims to build a global scientific consensus on AI risks. To keep pace with the field, the report now issues timely Key Updates alongside its main annual publication.
This first update, Capabilities and Risk Implications, details how new training techniques have enabled AI systems to achieve complex problem-solving in mathematics, coding, and science. These very capabilities, however, have immediate and serious implications for national and global security.
Lee J. Tiedrich
Guiding this critical work are global policy experts like Lee J. Tiedrich, a senior adviser to the report. Tiedrich, who recently joined the University of Maryland as an Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) fellow and co-director of the Tech Policy Hub, bridges the gap between technical AI development, law,and policy drawing upon her engineering, law, and policy background. Her role on the report complements her concurrent position as a GPAI and OECD expert and her prior roles as a senior AI advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and as an OECD consultant, positioning her at the forefront of international AI safety, risk management, policy, and governance.
For more on how University of Maryland researchers are helping guide global AI policy through urgent, data-driven insight, read the full update here.
This key update was written by International AI Safety Report contributors and published by the International AI Safety Report on October 15, 2025.
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