Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs Urge UN Security Council to Regulate AI

Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testified before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, calling for international safeguards on artificial intelligence. Amodei warned that if managed poorly, AI could pose a risk to humanity as a whole. Altman cautioned that we could lose control of the future to AI. Both urged the world's countries, acting through the Security Council, to establish safeguards to prevent the technology from becoming too powerful to control. The testimony came amid growing warnings about uncontrollable systems and catastrophic risks. The two leaders, whose companies are at the forefront of AI development, acknowledged the need for regulation of the technology they have been designing. Their appearance before the UN's most powerful body marks a significant moment in the global debate over AI governance, as calls for oversight intensify.