Anthropic & OpenAI: UN Demand Human Control Now
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei stood before the United Nations Security Council and said, in effect, that the technology they have built may be beyond any one nation's ability to govern alone.
Anthropic & OpenAI: UN Demand Human Control Now
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei stood before the United Nations Security Council and said, in effect, that the technology they have built may be beyond any one nation's ability to govern alone. Both the OpenAI chief executive and his Anthropic counterpart called for binding international standards on AI risk evaluation — the first time the two leading American AI laboratory heads have addressed the Security Council jointly, according to the BBC.
Altman proposed a framework for standardised risk thresholds across borders. Amodei went further, warning that without coordinated oversight, advanced AI systems could drift beyond meaningful human control. Hugging Face's Clément Delangue echoed both, telling the Council that open-source models present a distinct regulatory challenge that existing national frameworks are not designed to handle.
The intervention arrives as the US-China summit in Washington places AI supremacy at the centre of great-power rivalry. Both governments want dominance. Both, publicly at least, say they want the technology to remain controllable. The gap between those two positions is where the Security Council now sits.
No binding resolution followed the session. The call for a global AI governance body remains exactly that — a call.
The men who built the tools are asking the world to regulate them. The world has not yet decided who gets to write the rules.
