Altman and Amodei to Address UN Security Council on AI Safety
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will address a special UN Security Council session on AI, joined by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue. Altman plans to advocate shared global AI safety standards while avoiding measures that slow innovation, marking a rare appearance of top AI executives before the Security Council.
Confirmed
- Altman will call for global AI safety standards at the Council; OpenAI says it does not back a specific international regulator, favoring baseline safety standards plus democratic oversight.
- Amodei will participate via video link.
- Other speakers include Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue.
- Altman intends to position himself as a moderate on whether AI development should slow down.
- The session, covering AI risks and implications for international security, is scheduled for Wednesday (per @GaryMarcus citing Kalshi).
Unconfirmed
- An exclusive from @terryyuezhuo claims DeepSeek will brief the Council on AI risks and international security and that Moonshot has also been invited; this remains single-sourced and unverified.
Why it matters
- A rare AI-focused Security Council session gathering major AI executives and academics could set the tone for global AI governance debates.
- OpenAI's explicit opposition to a dedicated international regulator reveals the tug-of-war between industry and regulators over regulatory design.
- AI critic and NYU professor Gary Marcus mocked Altman as speaking with "no conflicts of interest at all," underscoring skepticism about the independence of corporate leaders in policy discussions.
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- Episode 4: Altman's AI Governance Proposal Draws Sharp Criticism from Safety Researchers(2026-09-23, 2 posts)
- Episode 5: Altman Tells UN Security Council Global AI Rules Can't Be Made in San Francisco Alone(2026-09-24, 2 posts)
- Episode 6: Altman and Amodei Address UN Security Council on AI Risks(2026-09-25, 2 posts)
Primary sources
- Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI; Gary Marcus scoffs at conflicts — GaryMarcus · 2026-09-21
- [source] Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to address UN Security Council at special AI meeting — Polymarket · 2026-09-22
- Report: DeepSeek to Brief UN Security Council on AI Risks Alongside Sam Altman — terryyuezhuo · 2026-09-22
- [source] Altman to Push Global AI Safety Standards in UN Security Council Speech — DeItaone · 2026-09-23
- [source] Sam Altman to pitch global AI standards at the UN, Amodei joins by video — TorturedPoet30 · 2026-09-23
- Altman and Amodei to Brief UN Security Council on AI Risks — AIFlow_ML · 2026-09-23