Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to set AI safeguards. Amodei warned poorly managed AI could risk humanity; Altman said people could lose control to AI. U.S. adviser Michael Kratsios opposed new global rules.
Amodei called for countries to prevent AI from building biological weapons, verify what models can do, and adopt common standards for testing loss-of-control risks and misuse. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Britain would make AI control central to its G20 presidency next year and seek shared safety standards.
China’s U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong said countries should be free to choose AI systems and promoted open-source models, warning against forcing nations to take sides. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for human control of machines on the battlefield; a University of Michigan professor said a Russian drone seemingly using AI autonomously made a targeting decision that killed three Ukrainians last month.
