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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Garance Burke

Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled

UN General Assembly AI - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain?

The answer may lie in the companies’ efforts to score political goals ahead of the U.S. midterm elections and the money top artificial intelligence labs and their investors stand to make in much-anticipated listings on a jittery stock market.

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