OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council
TL;DR
Heads of two of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies give separate briefings on AI safety Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic, heads of two of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies, addressed the United Nations security council on Wednesday in separate briefings on AI safety. “We have a choice in front of us,” Altman told the council.
Nauti's Take
Having both lab heads brief the Security Council is real progress: AI safety now sits on the agenda of the body that handles nuclear and conflict risk. The open question is enforcement, because the council has no mechanism to audit frontier models and the companies are effectively briefing their own regulators.
Policy teams and governments gain a direct channel; everyone else should watch whether concrete commitments follow.
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