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AI CEOs Urge UN Standards, Trump Rejects Regulation

By Drooid · Sep 24, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face’s Clement Delangue addressed the UN Security Council on 23 September 2026.
They called for international AI standards and a possible slowdown of frontier model development.
U.S. President Donald Trump rejected such regulation.
Anthropic chief science officer Jared Kaplan warned that self-training AI could trigger an intelligence explosion as early as 2027-2030.

History

Historical Context

After the Future of Life Institute convened the 2017 Asilomar conference, its 23 AI Principles—signed by 1,797 researchers—shaped global debates. That precedent underlies today’s UN Security Council hearing where Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue repeat calls for safeguards, even as President Donald Trump rejects regulation. The pattern shows policy lag behind rapid AI progress.

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Story summary

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face’s Clement Delangue addressed the UN Security Council on 23 September 2026.
They called for international AI standards and a possible slowdown of frontier model development.
U.S. President Donald Trump rejected such regulation.
Anthropic chief science officer Jared Kaplan warned that self-training AI could trigger an intelligence explosion as early as 2027-2030.

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