Leaders of more than 30 countries and the Commission President have called for control of frontier AI models

On 21 September 2026 Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre published ‘A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models’. According to the signatories, AI must remain under human direction, oversight and control. The call asks for:

– companies to develop transparent safety protocols, including mandatory pre-deployment testing and independent evaluation, with evaluators granted sufficient access;

– governments and regional organisations to coordinate common standards and strengthen transparency, including shared reporting of serious safety incidents;

– UN member states to explore creating an international institution able to set standards, enable verification and convene states when capability thresholds are crossed.

As of 9 November 2026 the call is supported by the leaders of 32 countries and by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, including Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Canada and Australia. Czechia, the United States, China and the United Kingdom are not among them. It is a political statement that remains open to other countries. In the EU, similar obligations – model evaluation and serious incident reporting – are already imposed by Article 55 of the AI Act on providers of general-purpose AI models with systemic risk.