Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
Transcript of Sam Altman's address to the UN Security Council. He names two failure modes for AI progress: losing control of the future to AI, especially with recursive self-improvement, and concentrating power in too few hands. He sets out three principles (people at the center of decisions, benefits by and for people, individual empowerment) and calls for complementary national and international frontier AI standards. Those standards would cover capability measurement, risk assessment, safeguard sufficiency, oversight, incident reporting and secure channels for sharing vulnerabilities. He also claims an OpenAI model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. The speech shows how a leading lab frames international governance.
Organisations named here
- OpenAI
- United Nations Security Council
- Millennium Prize Problems
- Navier-Stokes equations
Technologies named here
- OpenAI model
Techniques named here
- Recursive self-improvement
Also named here
- Sam Altman
- Yoshua Bengio
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