BoE Governor Bailey More Confident on International AI Testing Consensus

Bailey's shift in tone matters less for what it specifies than for what it signals: a major central bank governor treating AI testing as a coordination problem rather than a purely domestic one. That framing implicitly acknowledges that model evaluation regimes fragmented across jurisdictions could become a friction point for cross-border deployment, including in tokenized and market-infrastructure applications. The substance, however, remains thin — no jurisdictions, frameworks or timelines were named, so the gap between expressed confidence and any operable consensus is the thing worth watching.