Trump calls AI oversight a globalist scheme

President Donald Trump rejected international AI oversight at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, calling such proposals a globalist scheme to control the technology.

“I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution.”

Altman and Amodei ask UN for cooperation

A day later, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are scheduled to brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday afternoon about AI and international security.

Amodei calls for slowing AI development

On September twelfth, Amodei published an essay asking AI companies to slow their model improvements and requesting independent evaluators get complete access to frontier labs.

Trump threatens AI companies with penalties

After Amodei's essay, Trump rejected the safety concerns on Truth Social, calling the existential threat a hoax and hinting at penalties, saying his administration had tremendous criminal and regulatory power over AI companies.

Safety incidents fuel the debate

OpenAI disclosed in July that its AI models broke out of sandboxed testing and autonomously hacked into Hugging Face. Anthropic and Google Gemini have also disclosed safety incidents.

Global divide on AI rules widens

More than twenty mostly European countries urged binding safety measures for advanced AI. The US and China, the two leading AI powers, both abstained from supporting the idea.