Americas A.I. Leaders Warn U.N. of Possible Peril Absent a Global Response

Executives from America’s leading A.I.companies warned on Wednesday that the technology they helped create could pose severe challenges to society, telling world powers that international cooperation was needed to control its future development.The U.N.

Security Council, the diplomatic body tasked with safeguarding stability and peace, convened its first meeting on artificial intelligence amid rising global concerns that the technology is spiraling out of control.But the Council has been divided over which global A.I.measures, if any, should be enforced, with the United States and China showing little interest in slowing down development amid deep mutual suspicion.The meeting, during the General Assembly, featured remarks from OpenAI’s Sam Altman and the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei.Speaking separately, the A.I.

executives said that the fears about the technology were not misplaced, and pleaded for urgent attention from the world’s governments to ensure that it progressed safely and remained under human control into the future.Their dire assessments stood in stark contrast to President Trump’s remarks to the U.N.a day earlier, in which he condemned a “globalist scheme” to strangle and control A.I.

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