AI Safety Connect and Humane Intelligence PBC convened a private breakfast dialogue bringing together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to explore practical, equitable methodologies for evaluating AI systems. The conversation built on three complementary initiatives emerging from the Summit's Safe and Trusted AI Working Group: the Expert Engagement Group on Frontier AI Model Usage Data and Voluntary Commitments; the announced Trust and Safety AI Commons; and the newly launched Global South AI Safety Network, led by Digital Futures Lab and the Centre for Responsible AI at IIT Madras.

The dialogue centered on three questions: what role evaluations play in AI governance, how voluntary safety commitments by frontier developers can be sustained and how governance frameworks can better reflect Global South priorities and institutional realities.