United Nations
3 items across 1 edition. First seen Wed 23 Sep, last seen Wed 23 Sep.
- Security Council Report, writing on 22 September, says the Council holds a high-level briefing on artificial intelligence on the afternoon of 23 September under the "Maintenance of international peace and security" agenda item, convened by France as September president and chaired by French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot. Expected briefers are Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue.
- France's concept note, as summarised by Security Council Report, frames the session around systemic risks from AI misalignment and loss of human control, autonomous systems attacking critical infrastructure, and artificial general intelligence capable of recursive self-improvement.
- Seoul Economic Daily, citing Reuters, reports that China's DeepSeek and Moonshot AI were also invited to speak, and that DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is not expected to attend in person. It reports Chinese AI firms are not expected at the separate US-China summit on 24 September.
- No outcome document is mentioned. This is a briefing, not a negotiation, and the Council has no mechanism to bind frontier developers; the significance is that US and Chinese labs are scheduled to address the same session. Attendance had not been confirmed at the time of writing.
- In his address to the UN General Assembly on 22 September, President Trump said the United States "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence", and announced that "From this point forward, all of United States documents, and hopefully the world, will be changed to use the much more accurate term 'super,' as opposed to 'artificial'".
- Breaking Defense reports there is no official White House announcement on how the terminology change is to be implemented, and no executive order or formal guidance exists for it.
- The statement lands the day before the UN Security Council session on AI and international security convened by France, at which US frontier labs are scheduled to brief.
- Scientific American reports Trump compared AI-risk warnings to climate warnings. A statement of position at the General Assembly changes no US rule or regulation by itself; what to watch is whether any agency issues implementing guidance, and how the US delegation votes in Council and General Assembly processes on AI.
- In his opening remarks to the General Assembly's general debate on 22 September, his last as Secretary-General, António Guterres said: "The danger is not technology. The danger is technology without accountability: Capability without oversight. Decision-making without transparency."
- On autonomous weapons he said: "Let us resolve that life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines. Killer robots must have no place in our future." On children he said: "Children must never become the test subjects for unregulated systems."
- Guterres also called for "channels for dialogue, transparency, trust and cooperation" among AI-developing states and said global coordination through the UN is indispensable. The remarks were delivered hours after President Trump told the same Assembly that the US rejects any globalist scheme to control AI, and the day before the Security Council's AI briefing.
- These are remarks, not a proposal or an instrument. The UN has had no binding mechanism on autonomous weapons since the CCW talks stalled, and the address names no process for creating one. The press.un.org page blocked direct fetching; the quotes above come from a rendered read of the official press release.