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UN Chief Calls for Global AI Safeguards in Final General Assembly Address
UN Secretary-General António Guterres used his final address to the General Assembly on September 22 to call for stronger global oversight of artificial intelligence risks. He urged countries leading AI development to share information on emerging safety risks, cooperate on testing and work toward common safeguards.
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Guterres is pushing AI governance onto the international-security agenda as increasingly capable systems raise concerns over safety, autonomous weapons and loss of human control. He called for a multilateral AI risk-management framework backed by credible, independent oversight.
The UN Security Council is scheduled to discuss AI and international security on September 23. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and representatives from Anthropic are expected to participate, while Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek have also been invited to contribute.
Sep 16: Guterres warns about rapidly advancing AI risks
Sep 22: Delivers his final General Assembly address
Sep 23: Security Council holds high-level AI and international security meeting
Next: Focus turns to whether major powers can agree on common AI safeguards.
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