AI leaders to brief UN Security Council on risks of AI slipping beyond human control

AI executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday amid warnings that increasingly powerful AI could improve itself, slip beyond human control, and threaten international security. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to urge world leaders to adopt benchmarks for measuring AI capabilities and assessing safeguards. Council members, including the US and China, will speak, with France's foreign minister chairing the meeting. A key concern is whether algorithms interacting could trigger a war. US President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly he rejects global control of AI, vowing to encourage its growth, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pushed for global governance. AI expert Yoshua Bengio will also brief the council, which first met on AI risks in 2023.