Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence could “be a risk to humanity as a whole” during a briefing before the United Nations Security Council on Sept. 23.
Amodei was among the top AI executives who spoke at the meeting—organized by France during the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders—which also included statements by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clément Delangue.
Amodei urged the 15-member council to advance U.N. agreements that ban the use of AI to form biological weapons, and encouraged the council to build evaluation and verification systems allowing nations to hold each other accountable, establish global standards to test AI models for loss of control risks and misuse risks, and add a notification system for AI incidents that are significant to global security….