Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down

Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of catastrophic risk from AI is acceptable.

Altman is the second briefer at the meeting, which France convened. According to the Security Council Report, it is the Council’s first meeting focused specifically on the safety risks of increasingly capable AI.

It comes two months after OpenAI’s own agents broke into Hugging Face during an internal test.

“We’ve been talking about artificial intelligence for years, but it feels different in recent weeks and months,” Altman says.

He says he largely agrees with Yoshua Bengio, who spoke before him. However, he sees two main dangers rather than three: losing control of the future to AI, and AI concentrating power in too few hands. Being in a competitive race, he adds, is no...

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