AI leaders warn UN Security Council of AI slipping beyond human control

Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday amid warnings that increasingly powerful AI could soon 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, while council members including the US and China are set to speak. A European diplomat said the core question is whether algorithms interacting could one day trigger a war. US President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday he rejects globalist control of AI, vowing to encourage rather than rein it in, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has long pushed for global governance of the technology.