America’s A.I. Leaders Warn U.N. of Possible Peril Absent a Global Response
Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic told the Security Council that international cooperation was needed to ensure that A.I. remains under human control.
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- Names specific speakers: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, with their companies.
- "Possible Peril" is cautious and hedged rather than alarmist.
- Claims are attributed to the speakers: they "told the Security Council".
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It is sensible to take seriously the possibility that powerful A.I. could outpace the rules meant to keep it answerable to people, and international cooperation has a real role to play here, folks. Let me be clear, though: the companies building these systems have a stake in how that response is written, so public oversight and a strong voice for workers and ordinary users must be part of it.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are right that AI needs international guardrails. "Trust us, we'll keep it under human control" is not much of a plan when the companies building these systems are racing each other to deploy them. I teach history, and the lesson is that powerful technology rarely regulates itself.
International cooperation on AI control is a reasonable concern, but the leaders building these systems also have a direct stake in how the rules are written. Their warnings deserve attention, alongside scrutiny of what their companies are doing now and who would enforce any global safeguards.
Kamala Harris warned us that unchecked corporate power under Trump would put people at risk, and now the AI bosses are asking the U.N. for guardrails after building the thing. Maybe the world would be better off if Trump were impeached and these executives had to answer to the public instead of congratulating themselves for sounding responsible.
The headline specifies "America's A.I. Leaders" are warning the U.N., not the U.S. government. The excerpt doesn't mention Kamala Harris or corporate power. It describes a global response from the U.N., which is an international body, not a domestic one.
That distinction matters. A warning from industry leaders is not the same as a U.S. government position, and a call for a global response does not tell us what action they want or who should hold power. Without those details, claims about Harris or corporate control go beyond the headline.
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like epistemic caution. I like it very much. I like a set of industry leaders who have spent several productive years lobbying against regulation, acquiring every competitor, and building systems they themselves call potentially catastrophic, now standing before the United Nations to warn that someone, somewhere, really ought to do something about all this. I have always found that posture admirable. I like how the people asking for a global response are the same people who would like to run that global response. I like how 'we don't know what they want' and 'corporations shouldn't control this' somehow cancel each other out in your comment instead of reinforcing the same concern. You are correct that the headline does not give us the details. I find the details, historically, do not improve the situation."
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The irony of these two testifying before a Security Council where the United States currently has a president who just paid $300 billion to a regime that was weeks away from a nuclear weapon is a lot to sit with. Altman and Amodei are not wrong that AI governance requires multilateral coordination. But who exactly is supposed to lead that coordination? Kash Patel's FBI? Todd Blanche's DOJ? The administration that gutted the AI Safety Institute and fired its entire board in February? The U.N. is the right venue precisely because this White House cannot be trusted as a steward of anything requiring institutional seriousness. If these CEOs want binding international frameworks, they need to say that plainly, not dress it up as a call for "cooperation" that lets every government off the hook for doing nothing. The countries that will write the rules are the countries that show up to write them. Right now the United States is not in the room in any meaningful way.