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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.

TL;DR Altman tells the UN Security Council that frontier AI needs human control, democratic oversight and shared international standards for evaluation, safeguards and incident reporting.

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