AI leaders urge UN Security Council to regulate artificial intelligence

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The heads of major AI firms told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could pose a risk to all humanity if managed poorly, urging global controls on the technology they are developing. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified that safeguards are needed to prevent AI from becoming too powerful to control, and they called for ensuring its power is not concentrated in one company or country. The Security Council convened with tech leaders to address questions about human versus machine control over life-and-death decisions, following a U.N. warning about "killer robots" that experts say are already a reality or close to it.


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