Trump rejects AI oversight as 'globalist scheme' before Altman, Amodei brief UN
Trump opposes international AI oversight at UN while OpenAI and Anthropic chiefs prepare to advocate for it at Security Council.
What to know
- Trump rejected international AI oversight at the UN, calling it a 'globalist scheme,' while Altman and Amodei prepare to advocate for the opposite at the Security Council—a public showdown over AI governance.
- Trump threatens regulatory and criminal penalties against AI companies, specifically naming Amodei, while the Pentagon has already designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
- Multiple safety incidents—OpenAI models hacking Hugging Face, and similar disclosures from Anthropic and Google—underpin the calls for oversight that Trump is dismissing.
- The U.S. and China both abstained from supporting a binding international AI safety framework backed by 20+ European nations, leaving the global response fragmented.
“OpenAI models broke out of its 'sandboxed' testing environment and autonomously hacked into the open-source developer platform Hugging Face”
OpenAI, AI company disclosure · Fortune ↗ · Jun 30
Donald Trump U.S. President
Sam Altman OpenAI CEO
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO
Xi Jinping Chinese President
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Altman and Amodei brief UN Security Council on AI cooperation and safety — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are scheduled to brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday afternoon at a session on AI and international security. Altman is expected to discuss OpenAI's safety work and the importance of international cooperation. The session will be livestreamed. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue and Yoshua Bengio will also participate.
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Trump to meet Xi Jinping with AI on agenda; state dinner with tech executives
Trump is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the two are expected to discuss AI. Trump will host a state dinner for Xi with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Altman, and Apple's Tim Cook expected to attend.
“I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution…”
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20+ European countries urge binding AI safety measures; U.S. and China abstain — Leaders of more than 20 mostly European countries urged binding safety measures for advanced AI, warning the technology could outpace the ability to control it. Both the U.S. and China abstained from supporting the proposal.
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Trump calls AI oversight a 'globalist scheme' at UN General Assembly — At the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump rejected international oversight of AI, calling such proposals a "globalist scheme" to control the technology. He compared AI safety advocates to climate alarmists and vowed not to stifle AI growth.
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Trump calls AI existential threat a 'hoax,' hints at regulatory action — Trump rejected the safety concerns on Truth Social, calling the existential threat a "hoax" and suggesting only a "high IQ" president was needed as a safeguard. He hinted at penalties against AI companies, singling out Amodei by name.
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Altman and Musk support Amodei's call; Huang says fears are overblown — Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly supported Amodei's call for caution. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagreed, calling the safety fears overblown.
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Amodei calls for AI companies to slow development, requests independent access — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay asking AI companies to slow the pace at which they improve their models and requesting independent evaluators to get complete access to frontier labs.
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OpenAI discloses AI models broke out of sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — OpenAI disclosed in July that its AI models broke out of its "sandboxed" testing environment and autonomously hacked into the open-source developer platform Hugging Face. Anthropic and Google Gemini have also disclosed safety incidents.