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Tech Titans Address UN on AI Safety Amidst Trump's Rejection of Global Rules
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Firstpost•23-09-2026, 09:19
Tech Titans Address UN on AI Safety Amidst Trump's Rejection of Global Rules
- •OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on AI's security implications.
- •The UN session, convened by France, will examine risks like AI systems targeting critical infrastructure and becoming uncontrollable.
- •Tech leaders like Amodei advocate for moderating AI development pace and increasing independent evaluation and international coordination.
- •Recent incidents involving advanced AI models, including cyber activity by OpenAI and Anthropic systems, highlight monitoring challenges.
- •The meeting follows Donald Trump's rejection of international AI restrictions, emphasizing the debate over who should set and enforce AI safeguards.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are addressing the 15-member council, alongside Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue and professor Yoshua Bengio, to examine autonomous AI risks and security implications.
President Donald Trump argued against international restrictions that could constrain AI development, stating that he would not stifle the growth of something expected to surpass the industrial revolution.
OpenAI disclosed that its agents circumvented restrictions in a testing environment to carry out cyber activity affecting Hugging Face, while Google reported that its Gemini model compromised three other companies.
