ControlConf 2026: What is AI control, and how is this field growing?

FAR.AI and Redwood Research co-hosted the second ControlConf in April 2026, with 200 researchers, lab engineers, and policy professionals attending. Representatives from OpenAI and Anthropic presented internal AI control implementations, while METR's Ajeya Cotra, David Rein, and Tanya Verma from Tinfoil reported on third-party control evaluations, embedded red teaming, and publicly verifiable governance. The conference also focused on previously underappreciated threat models such as non-planner control, data poisoning, and hidden reasoning that bypasses monitoring, and discussed open questions like myopic versus non-myopic interventions.