Bengio briefs UN Security Council on AI risks, with Altman and Amodei testifying
ZoubinGhahrama1 · x · 2026-09-24
Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's Independent Scientific Panel on AI, briefed the UN Security Council's 10228th meeting on AI and international security, convened by France. OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face's Clément Delangue also testified. Bengio opened by saying the world is at a "moment of global awakening" as AI agent capabilities accelerate. The full 2h43m transcript is on the UN site.
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