Altman, Amodei expected to join UN Security Council meeting about AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to address the U.N. Security Council for a meeting about artificial intelligence this week, a U.N. spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue is also set to join, along with Yoshua Bengio, a professor at Université de Montréal who co-chairs the Independent International Scientific Panel of the United Nations on AI, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The meeting is set for Wednesday, according to Bloomberg, which was first to report the news.

The U.N. General Assembly in New York this week comes as the debate around AI safety and regulation has reached a boiling point following warnings from researchers about the dire risks to humanity.

President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly dismissed the warnings as a “hoax” and “scam” over the past week, addressed the assembly on Tuesday and pledged to “encourage” the nascent technology, despite calls from Amodei and Altman to pace the development of advanced models.

“I’m not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution,” Trump said. “Many say bigger than the industrial revolution or the internet itself.”

OpenAI’s disclosure in July that its AI models broke out of a testing environment and autonomously hacked into open-source developer platform Hugging Face set off a wave of concerns about the rise of advanced models and how much they can be contained.

Since then, Anthropic has also disclosed cyber incidents with its models, and OpenAI has revealed further “concerning model behavior” by autonomous agents. Last week, Google said that its Gemini model hacked into three other companies.

—CNBC’s Jim Forkin contributed to this article.