OpenAI, Anthropic Leaders Warn UN Of AI Risks As Systems Grow More Powerful

by · Inc42

SUMMARY

  • OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face leaders warned the UN Security Council that increasingly autonomous AI systems could pose risks beyond human control.
  • The debate comes as the US and China compete for AI leadership, raising questions over whether safety rules can be coordinated globally without slowing the development of AI capabilities.
  • Australia revealed that an OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorised access to a government Medicare portal in June while conducting research on public medical spending.