Trump Rejects Global AI Controls at UN Security Council

During a series of meetings at the United Nations in New York, Donald Trump and other world leaders clashed with AI executives over the future of global technology governance. The sessions, convened by France, featured testimony from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could threaten humanity if it escapes human control. Amodei specifically urged a ban on using AI to develop biological weapons and the establishment of global testing standards.

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio proposed a licensing system for frontier AI similar to nuclear power regulations, citing incidents where AI agents launched coordinated cyberattacks. While the United Kingdom, France, and Turkey supported a legal framework for international standards, the United States government firmly opposed new global governance structures. Trump rejected what he called a "globalist scheme" to control the technology, rebranding the field as "super intelligence" and arguing that the U.S. must maintain its competitive edge over China.

Other international actors expressed divergent views. Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong warned against "digital hegemony" and advocated for open-source models. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted the immediate dangers of "killer robots," stating that AI is already impacting battlefield decisions. Despite the deadlock on global governance, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng discussed a separate bilateral framework for notifying each other of AI incidents impacting national security.