United States President Donald Trump has rejected calls for an international agreement to establish safeguards for the development of artificial intelligence, dismissing concerns that advanced AI models could pose risks if they operate beyond human control.

Despite warnings from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the leaders of the UK, France and Canada, as well as major AI companies, Trump said existing institutions in the US would be capable of managing the potential risks associated with advanced AI systems.

“The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence,” Trump said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

“I’m not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution.”

World leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations’ annual General Assembly amid growing concerns over the risks posed by artificial intelligence, following warnings from researchers at leading AI developers that the technology could pose an existential threat without adequate safeguards.

In his final address to the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres called for international rules to govern AI, warning against a future marked by excessive corporate power and lethal autonomous machines powered by the technology.