Altman: "This moment calls for extreme care"

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday about the risks of rapid AI advancement and called for global cooperation to mitigate them, which he said include losing control of the future to AI and concentrating power in too few hands. "As the process of building AI becomes more automated, the pace of AI progress could accelerate rapidly. This moment calls for extreme care," he said. He warned that AI was advancing at a rate where it could soon outpace human ability to follow what's happening or intervene when needed. "The industry must not accept too much technological risk just because the benefits are too great and that they feel too important to slow down," he said. "Being companies in a competitive race is not a reason to make rash decisions, nor do we believe we are locked in a race where we're unable to do that. We have unilaterally slowed down in the past. We will do so in the future." He also warned the AI race could concentrate "too mu