OpenAI and Anthropic’s CEOs just delivered this message to the U.N. as AI fears swirl
THE SO WHAT
When Altman and Amodei ask UN members for global AI standards, they’re trying to shape the regulatory perimeter before it hardens. If you’re building on frontier models, assume a coming layer of cross-border norms around safety, reporting, and incident response — and design your governance to plug into that, not just local law.
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