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title: "UN science panel says there is \"no assurance humans will keep control\" over AI agents"
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published_at: "2026-09-21T17:44:10.000Z"
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topics: ["un","safety","agent-control","openai","huggingface","ai-control","world-leaders","finland"]
source_urls: ["https://the-decoder.com/un-science-panel-says-there-is-no-assurance-humans-will-keep-control-over-ai-agents/","https://huggingnews.com/ai/22-world-leaders-sign-ai-control-call-excluding-us-china-and-uk-ef9a69f7","https://marketbrief.now/ai/22-world-leaders-sign-ai-control-call-excluding-us-china-and-uk-ef9a69f7"]
summary: "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."
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# UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents

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**Published:** 2026-09-21T17:44:10.000Z
**Topics:** un, safety, agent\-control, openai, huggingface, ai\-control, world\-leaders, finland

## Summary

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\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://the-decoder.com/un-science-panel-says-there-is-no-assurance-humans-will-keep-control-over-ai-agents/>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/22-world-leaders-sign-ai-control-call-excluding-us-china-and-uk-ef9a69f7>)
- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/22-world-leaders-sign-ai-control-call-excluding-us-china-and-uk-ef9a69f7>)

