UN Security Council weighs AI risks with tech leaders
The UN Security Council met Wednesday to discuss artificial intelligence, with leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face warning that poorly managed AI poses a threat to global security. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio called for urgent regulation, proposing international agreements to ban dangerous AI models and demanding independent scientists gain access to corporate AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman acknowledged risks of AI advancing beyond human control, while Anthropic's Dario Amodei called AI the greatest global security threat. France, the UK, and China supported international cooperation, but the US rejected pauses or global restrictions. The meeting preceded a Thursday dinner between President Trump and China's Xi Jinping with US AI leaders to discuss AI development.