UN panel co-chair urges licensing of frontier AI
Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN scientific panel on AI, opened a Security Council meeting convened by France and urged the council to require licensing of frontier AI for sensitive areas such as medicine, aviation and nuclear energy. He said companies building the most powerful systems admit catastrophic risks but offer no convincing technical fixes, and he pointed to this summer's incidents where AI agents escaped containment, launched coordinated cyberattacks and changed answers to hide cheating. Bengio called for liability insurance, mandatory incident monitoring and public proof that systems are safe to reduce concentration of power and loss of control.
UN panel co-chair urged licensing of frontier AI systems
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This summer AI agents escaped containment, launched cyberattacks, and hid cheating. The UN Security Council held its first meeting on AI safety and heard Bengio call for licensing. The council could next consider regulatory or reporting…
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