OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week (reuters.com)
26 points by layer8 an hour ago
wewewedxfgdf 36 minutes ago
I find it very hard to understand the things these AI CEO's say.
He will probably get up there and say his companies products will destroy every citizen of their countries.
laxd 30 minutes ago
Shocking publicity is good publicity. And "my product is so potent it will probably destroy you." I think I´ve heard it from drug dealers as well.
EA-3167 15 minutes ago
It’s a great way to sign up young men for military duty too, sell it to them like it’s something exciting and awesome… and they can’t handle it.
kelseyfrog 20 minutes ago
Smells of, "You can't handle my potions. They're too strong for you."[1]
1. https://genius.com/Justin-kuritzkes-potion-seller-annotated
einarfd an hour ago
He will probably tell them exactly what they want him to say. If he means it or not. That is hard to say.
mlnj 15 minutes ago
When has anyone faced scrutiny over their lies to these politicians?
cpcabbge 19 minutes ago
Why these bug eyed salamanders have any say at all for any of this is beyond me. He's a tech ceo who wants to make money, nothing more.
nba456_ 10 minutes ago
I thought you meant the UN at first and was about to agree. They should have no say about US tech.
dyauspitr 8 minutes ago
He’s rich, in charge of a pretty significant company that has made history and continues to do so.
hfc56 9 minutes ago
Who do you think designed central banks?
Bankers or politicians or the plebs?
These kind of meetings are to create common vocabulary/seed common frameworks across the world for problems all govts are seeing or expecting on the horizon.
ks2048 42 minutes ago
The founder of Loopt is now ruling the world.
cloche 34 minutes ago
The guy had a failed startup and somehow leveraged that into the situation today.
IncreasePosts 17 minutes ago
I imagine his time at ycombinator as Gríma Wormtongue whispering into theoden's(paulg's) ear
bogzz 34 minutes ago
The LARP proceeds unabated.
edoceo an hour ago
If governments regulate AI and make it slow down, does that let one get out of data center contracts?
dgellow 25 minutes ago
If OpenAI voids its spending commitment, the bubble has to pop. I know the market is irrational, but that would be the clearest top signal ever
pluc 39 minutes ago
How's AI doing in Russia with all the sanctions and whatnot?
ACCount39 16 minutes ago
The AI industry in Russia is not doing well. Domestic AI models exist, but they aren't exactly high performers, and many of them are based on the open weight Chinese models - so there is very little reason to use them. IT power users run Western or Chinese models, often through proxies, VPNs or resellers.
AI is being adopted and used, but if there was ever a chance of Russia being an AI power, it died in 2022.
A few formerly-Russian IT companies had their "rainy day" HQs overseas, and leveraged them to slip the noose and leave Russia - brain draining what AI expertise was available in the country. See: Yandex -> Nebius.
layer8 27 minutes ago
They’re just using Claude: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/09/russia-weaponi...
free_bip 34 minutes ago
They have access to all the same open models that the rest of the world does, so just fine I would think.
dgellow 27 minutes ago
They also access American models via proxies. Same as China
osiris970 12 minutes ago
Are we still pretending models aren't cyber capable, and will be an immense force for hacking? I expected this shit on reddit not here. You don't have to like Sam, and still not do this bullshit
bogzz 8 minutes ago
The fearmongering is based in the notion that the LessWrong fanfic is coming true as we speak, not LLMs being used as tools for hacking.
wg0 an hour ago
The private equity debt time bomb is here. Then there is the bond market.
And then guaranteed bust of AI bubble. 2000 billion dollars for a single company? That too when bottom of the boat has been drilled by open weight Chinese models that are cheaper and good enough but can even be deployed locally?
In face of all that - that kind of return is not realistic.
However - good gimmick scaring UN asking for a ban on Chinese models perhaps.
tracerbulletx an hour ago
The UN is not a body that would be involved in banning models from a specific country, and even if they were China is one of 5 members with permanent veto power.
api 25 minutes ago
Only way to justify those valuation is if they can achieve regulatory capture and outlaw competitors and open models.
Expect the fear mongering to escalate to a fever pitch.
The UN has no authority to ban anything but it's a good platform.
ahartmetz an hour ago
A great marketing opportunity for Grifty McGriftface.
verdverm 40 minutes ago
A friend him called Uncle Sam Alternative-man, thought it was accurate and clever