Concentration of power is a key AI risk, the heads of leading AI companies told the UN Security Council on Wednesday.
“No one person or company or country should be able to use the most powerful AI models to impose their worldview on everyone else,” OpenAI’s Sam Altman said, while Anthropic’s Dario Amodei warned that “if managed poorly, AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole.” The CEO of Hugging Face, which was hacked by rogue OpenAI agents, cautioned against the “asymmetry of powerful AI” leaving the world vulnerable to the capabilities of big AI companies.
Their calls for global safeguards and a slowdown diverged sharply from US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of AI’s existential risks as a “hoax.”