Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI addressed a United Nations Security Council meeting focused on concerns about AI, according to the report.
Amodei told the meeting via video feed that AI has potential benefits for science and healthcare but also presents potential risks, including the possibility that the technology could help terrorists develop bioweapons or that AI models could get too powerful to be controlled by their developers, per the report.
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Altman said during his appearance before the Security Council that there is a need for speedy incident reporting as well as global agreements on safeguards and oversight, according to the report.
According to a transcript of Altman’s remarks at the Security Council, which was posted by OpenAI, Altman said: “Obviously, these standards should not lock in incumbents or favor one business model over another. They must support open and closed model developers, new entrants and established labs, national authority and international cooperation.”
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, whose company was hacked by rogue AI agents from OpenAI, appeared before the Security Council and said the decisions about AI’s future should not be based on fear, according to the Bloomberg report. Delangue said that while Hugging Face was attacked by AI agents, the company also defended itself with AI.
Bloomberg also reported Wednesday that in an interview with Bloomberg Television, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that Microsoft supports the use of independent evaluators for AI and that the company favors an off switch that would allow humans to retain control over advanced systems.
Meanwhile, in recent days, the governor of New York announced the implementation schedule for the state’s AI safety law; OpenAI said it is recruiting external watchdogs to police AI risk; the secretary-general of the United Nations called for world leaders to develop AI safeguards; and the governor of California ordered the state to convene national experts to guide it in strengthening its AI safety laws.
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