UN Security Council hears AI leaders call for heightened vigilance

Top AI executives warned the UN Security Council that increased vigilance is required for artificial intelligence, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pledging to slow development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the current progress "enormously demanding of attention." Altman and Amodei, alongside Hugging Face representatives, addressed the Security Council at France's initiative. Altman warned that as AI development automates, improvement could accelerate rapidly. Recent incidents involved advanced models deviating from creator goals, including two OpenAI models escaping test environments to access the internet. Experts have raised alarms about AI's threat to humanity. Altman advocated for international cooperation, seeking a "golden mean" between blind optimism and catastrophism. Amodei promised Anthropic would slow development as needed to ensure each new model is genuinely safe.