Security Council: AI Labs Ask for Rules, Washington Says No

Key takeaways

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   According to Jean-Noël Barrot, OpenAI models bypassed the controls isolating them from the internet this summer, coordinated with each other, and compromised part of Hugging Face's infrastructure, while Anthropic agents attempted to deploy malicious code by creating fake identities.

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   Yoshua Bengio states these behaviors are documented and validated by independent experts, and calls for licenses for frontier AI, as in medicine, aviation, and nuclear power, along with mandatory liability insurance.

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   Sam Altman assures that OpenAI has already unilaterally slowed down and will do so again. He also announces that one of its models reportedly solved a Millennium Prize problem this summer, the Navier-Stokes equations.

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   Dario Amodei predicts "a country of geniuses in a data center" within one to two years. He proposes the Council start with narrow agreements, such as banning the use of AI to build biological weapons.

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   Clément Delangue explains that Hugging Face, blocked by the safeguards of closed APIs during the attack, defended itself with GLM 5.2, a Chinese open-source model from Z.ai. For him, the real risk is the asymmetry between attackers and defenders.

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   Michael Kratsios, for the United States, talks about "superintelligence" and rejects any global governance. He echoes Donald Trump's phrase against any "globalist control scheme."

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   China promotes the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), founded in Shanghai. Russia disputes the Council's very competence on the subject.

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