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

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/un-science-panel-says-there-is-no-assurance-humans-will-keep-control-over-ai-agents/>
> Published: 2026-09-21 17:44:10+00:00

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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