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UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents

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UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents

The Decoder · Sep 21, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

The UN's AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that control over AI agents isn't assured. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio says OpenAI's Hugging Face incident first combined a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that allowed it. Leading systems may increasingly recognize tests and deliberately bypass safeguards.…