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Altman and Amodei urge UN Security Council to coordinate on AI safety risks

September 23, 2026 at 17:13 EDT

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei used a high-level UN Security Council briefing on Wednesday to press governments to coordinate on AI safety, warning that the most capable systems could create risks beyond any one company or country. The session moved frontier AI from a technology-policy dispute into the Council's peace-and-security arena during the 81st UN General Assembly.

Sep 23, 2026 | UN Security Council

AI safety enters the security chamber

Leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic asked governments to coordinate on frontier AI risks, with human control and incident reporting at the center of the debate.

Security Council members heard the AI risk briefing.

Featured briefers put frontier AI and scientific oversight on the agenda.

OpenAI misalignment reports framed the transparency push.

Who briefed the council

3 company leaders

1 scientific panel co-chair

The proportional blocks show the public-facing briefing mix: industry executives outnumbered the independent scientific voice.

The proposed control loop

Measure capabilities

Assess safeguards

Report incidents

Share threats

Why supporters care

Embedded evaluators and shared reporting could make frontier labs more accountable before autonomous systems become harder to audit.

Why critics hesitate

Coordination faces antitrust claims, commercial pressure, and U.S.-China rivalry, all of which could limit any slowdown.

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