AI leaders to brief UN amid warnings the technology could slip beyond human control

Altman plans to urge world leaders to adopt benchmarks for measuring AI capabilities and assessing the safeguards companies put in place as they develop the technology, an OpenAI executive told reporters on Tuesday.

Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face ​will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday amid warnings that increasingly powerful AI technologies could soon improve themselves, slip ‌beyond human control and threaten international security.