OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week
- OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman will brief the United Nations Security Council in person next week during the General Assembly in New York, focusing on AI safety, global benefits, and international coordination.
- The Security Council first addressed artificial intelligence risks in 2023, when China warned the technology should not become a "runaway horse" and the United States cautioned against its use for repression.
- Industry leaders recently warned powerful technology could slip beyond human control; Altman has long echoed these concerns, writing in a 2015 essay that "development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity."
- On Wednesday, the Trump administration will convene a high-level event on artificial intelligence, where US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz will host discussions on policy and regulatory conditions.
- Claire Melamed, Vice President for Digital Cooperation at the United Nations Foundation, suggested the UN could assume a role in crisis management for AI-generated cyberattacks, noting increasing interest in equalizing access to safety governance instruments.
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Altman to brief UN Security Council amid AI fears
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman will brief the United Nations Security Council next week during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York for the UN General Assembly, an OpenAI spokesperson said. The 15-strong Security Council is due to meet on Wednesday on artificial intelligence and international security, just weeks after several AI industry leaders called for a coordinated slowdown of the development of the increasingly powerful te…
The CEO of the company that has developed ChatGPT is to make a presentation, Wednesday, September 23, in New York, during a meeting organised at the initiative of France, in a context of strong concerns about the risks associated with artificial intelligence.
After the Cuban crisis, the US and the Soviet Union began a dialogue to protect themselves from nuclear attacks. António Guterres demands that something similar should now happen at AI.
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Sam Altman will give a briefing at the UN General Assembly at a time marked by concern about AI risks.
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