AI CEOs urge UN to regulate artificial intelligence globally
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to establish global oversight of artificial intelligence, warning that unmanaged AI could threaten humanity as a whole. Speaking at a meeting convened by France during the UN General Assembly, both executives called for democratic governance rather than control by San Francisco labs. France and the UK supported common frameworks, while Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue described using a Chinese AI model to defend against attacks by OpenAI agents. The US and China resisted new restrictions, with Washington rejecting centralized global governance. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned AI's future cannot be left to a few billionaires, as experts like Yoshua Bengio called the dangers "real and imminent."