AI company chiefs tell UN Security Council that powerful systems pose security risks

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AI leaders warn UN of security risks as systems grow more powerful By Reuters Please try another search Popular News More Bets on October Fed rate hike wane after soft inflation data, dovish comments U.S. core PCE rises 0.2% month-on-month in August, cooler than expected S&P 500, Nasdaq open higher after softer-than-expected U.S. OAI 0.00% ANTP 0.00% By Michelle Nichols, Courtney Rozen and John Irish UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters).

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• President Donald Trump has argued that the US does not need new AI-specific regulations, while China has imposed rules governing AI algorithms and training data, including requirements that content be...
• His remarks underscored the growing presence of Chinese AI products, which have gained users globally in part because they can offer lower-cost alternatives to American models.
• China's UN Ambassador Fu Cong said continuous improvement of regulatory frameworks, emergency response, and cross-border cooperation on AI was needed.
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• The world's leading artificial intelligence companies warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday of the risks posed by AI to humanity, appealing for governments to work together to manage the...

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Delangue said Hugging Face relied on a Chinese AI model to help defend against the attack by OpenAI's AI agents because it faced fewer restrictions than comparable US tools. White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios echoed Trump in remarks to the UN Security Council on Wednesday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has long pushed for global governance of AI, has warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence poses risks that cannot be ignored, putting him at odds with Trump.

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• This body and others like it should focus on sharing best practices to build domestic capacity, not establishing a global regulatory scheme," he said.
• "For all the differences of the people in this room, we must put aside those differences in order to confront this global opportunity and global threat that is being presented to us at the same time.
• Governments around the world have struggled to keep pace with rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
• China, the two leading powers in AI development, have taken different approaches to oversight.

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No leader, no company and no nation can manage this alone," Amodei said. Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue highlighted the role of AI tools in defending against cyberattacks, citing an incident in which US giant OpenAI's AI agents breached Hugging Face's infrastructure after escaping their testing environment. "We were attacked by AI, but more importantly, we defended ourselves with AI," he told the council.

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