Anthropic CEO Warns Poorly Managed AI Could Be ‘Risk to Humanity’
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.
TL;DR
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned the UN Security Council that AI poses a significant risk to humanity.
- Amodei called for U.N. agreements to ban AI in biological weapons and for global standards to test AI for safety and misuse risks.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman cautioned that AI could advance too quickly for humans to control, potentially leading to a loss of control over the future.
- Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue suggested that fear-based narratives are not the best approach to managing AI's future, and highlighted AI's use in defending against cyberattacks.
- The meeting occurred amidst heightened concerns following a former OpenAI researcher's prediction that AI could become an existential threat by the end of the decade.
- Separately, former U.S. President Donald Trump advocated for rebranding AI as 'super intelligence' and pushed for U.S. dominance in the AI race.