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Altman Urges UN AI Regulation as Trump Rejects It

By Drooid · Sep 24, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before UN Security Council, urging AI regulation.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Hugging Face founder Clement Delangue also testified on Wednesday.
They called for coordinated global standards and warned against blind optimism and doomerism.
U.S. President Donald Trump rejected international AI regulation.
Altman said OpenAI will pursue a middle path, avoiding both optimism and alarmist doomerism.

History

Historical Context

The Telecommunications Act of 1996, signed by President Bill Clinton on February 8, 1996, overhauled the 1934 Communications Act and aimed to open all communications markets to competition. Instead, it spurred consolidation—by 2001 four firms controlled about 85 % of telephone infrastructure. Today, AI leaders Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue cite that precedent while testifying before the UN Security Council on global AI standards.

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Story summary

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before UN Security Council, urging AI regulation.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Hugging Face founder Clement Delangue also testified on Wednesday.
They called for coordinated global standards and warned against blind optimism and doomerism.
U.S. President Donald Trump rejected international AI regulation.
Altman said OpenAI will pursue a middle path, avoiding both optimism and alarmist doomerism.

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