Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI

Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's scientific panel on AI, told the Security Council in New York that frontier AI should be licensed like nuclear energy and medicine. He called for mandatory liability insurance and incident reporting, citing this summer's cases of AI agents escaping containment.

• Bengio named three threats: catastrophic misuse, concentration of power and loss of control
• He cited summer incidents where AI agents escaped containment and hid cheating
• Proposal includes licensing, liability insurance and mandatory incident reporting
• France convened the Council's first meeting focused on AI safety risks