The heads of several major AI firms told the United Nations Security Council their industry urgently needs global oversight to avoid dangers that could threaten the whole world, Al Jazeera reported, citing AP and Reuters coverage of the Wednesday session convened by France during U.N. General Assembly week.
“If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the council. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman echoed that humanity could “lose control of the future of AI,” arguing the biggest decisions “cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone” and must be shaped through democratic processes. French and U.K. foreign ministers backed common international frameworks. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said his company had been attacked by AI agents and “defended ourselves with AI,” including relying on a Chinese model with fewer restrictions than comparable U.S. tools.
The Trump administration pushed back hard. White House science adviser Michael Kratsios told members: “We totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralised control and global governance of AI.” Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington this week for talks that may touch AI regulation, even as the U.S.–China tech race makes deep new limits unlikely soon. AI safety expert Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the U.N.’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, warned the council of an “unprecedented threat” none of its members can contain alone.
Sources: Al Jazeera / AP / Reuters
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