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Altman to Urge UN Security Council to Back Global AI Safety Standards

September 23, 2026 at 08:45 EDT

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is expected to use a United Nations Security Council briefing on Wednesday to argue for global technical standards governing advanced AI, placing the company between calls for a full slowdown and demands to keep frontier development moving. The pitch comes as governments and AI labs debate whether voluntary safety work, independent evaluation and international coordination can keep pace with increasingly autonomous systems.

Sept. 23, 2026 · UN Security Council

Global AI standards move to the security stage

Sam Altman is expected to argue for shared frontier AI measurements, incident reporting and independent scrutiny as governments weigh how to pace increasingly autonomous systems.

Security Council members in the room

Experts on the UN scientific AI panel

$7T

Expected AI scaling spend over five years

AI agents are already multiplying research effort

OpenAI reported 3.1 agent-workdays for every 1 human workday in its research organization.

Human workday

3.1x

Agent workdays

What the standards push would cover

Measure capabilities

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Assess safeguards

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Report incidents

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Coordinate globally

Why supporters see progress

Shared measurements, outside assessments and incident reporting could make safety claims easier to verify.

Why skeptics remain wary

Real-time audits may be hard as agents multiply, and evaluator independence is still unsettled.

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