AI Debate Heats Up UN: "Against Control" vs. "Safety Measures Like Nuclear Weapons"

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AI frontrunners Anthropic and OpenAI have unveiled new artificial intelligence models side by side. While maintaining the performance of existing top-tier models, they have slashed prices in half. The two companies, which had previously warned of AI risks and called for slowing down, have now entered a competition for cost-effective new products. Amid criticism that they are trying to keep latecomers in check and strengthen their monopolies, the debate over slowing down AI has even heated up the UN General Assembly floor.

This is reported by Kim Young-a.

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In his UN General Assembly address, US President Donald Trump dismissed claims that AI would put humanity at risk as exaggerated, rejecting the arguments for slowing down AI and strengthening regulations that US AI companies themselves have pioneered.

[Donald Trump / US President : The United States completely rejects any attempt to establish an international-level AI control system in any form. We will not stifle the growth of something that will bring changes greater than the industrial revolution.]

He also announced that the US government documents will use the term SI, for super intelligence, instead of AI, for artificial intelligence, moving forward.

The move appears intended to reduce resistance to the idea of machines dominating humans. However, UN Secretary-General António Guterres clashed with Trump by comparing the risks of AI to nuclear bombs and urging the establishment of safety measures.

[António Guterres / UN Secretary-General : During the Cold War, nuclear weapons were the threat. Today, AI demands the same level of clear purpose and urgent response as nuclear weapons.]

Expressing concern over technological dependence on the US and China, French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized that other countries should pool their capabilities to reshape the AI ecosystem.

[Emmanuel Macron / French President : Let countries that do not want to be dependent on either of the world's two superpowers join forces to develop open-source, cutting-edge AI models.]

At the UN Security Council meeting to be held on the 23rd, figures from US companies including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, as well as representatives from Chinese AI companies such as DeepSeek and Moonshot, are scheduled to attend to discuss "the future of AI and international security."

Attention is focused on whether a balance point can be found between the fear of AI development speeds exceeding expectations and the greed to capture an unprecedented massive market.

(Video Editing: Kim Byung-jik)
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