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Eva Roytburg

Trump calls AI oversight a 'globalist scheme' as Amodei and Altman head to the UN to ask for it

US President Donald Trump arrives to address the 81st United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York on September 22, 2026. (Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump, in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, rejected the idea of international oversight of artificial intelligence—what he has just taken to calling “superintelligence.” In thus address, he called such proposals a “globalist scheme” to control the technology.

A day later, the heads of America’s two leading AI labs will ask the UN for close to the opposite.

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