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AI Threatens Humanity: Tech Leaders Demand Urgent Safeguards
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Moneycontrol•26-09-2026, 15:23
AI Threatens Humanity: Tech Leaders Demand Urgent Safeguards
- •OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warn that rapidly advancing AI could pose an existential threat to humanity if not properly controlled.
- •Both leaders addressed the UN Security Council, highlighting risks from power concentration to misuse for biological weapons.
- •Altman emphasized AI's potential for a new renaissance but cautioned against its capacity to outpace institutional responses, leading to upheaval.
- •Amodei noted AI's rapid progress, citing its ability to solve complex problems and predicting a "country of geniuses in a data centre" within years.
- •They advocate for human oversight, measurable safety commitments, and international coordination to ensure AI's benefits are realized while mitigating dangers.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that rapidly advancing AI could threaten humanity if governments and industry fail to maintain human control, highlighting risks ranging from the concentration of power to the misuse of AI for biological weapons and autonomous systems outpacing institutional responses.
Dario Amodei stated that AI is advancing so quickly that within a tiny period of one or two years, or maybe less, it could reach what he called a country of geniuses in a data centre.
Both executives emphasized human oversight, measurable safety commitments toward AI, and international coordination, with Amodei noting that Anthropic continuously eliminates potentially dangerous AI models currently in development.
