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Altman and Amodei Urge UN Security Council to Coordinate on Frontier AI Risks

September 23, 2026 at 18:02 EDT

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the 15-member UN Security Council on Sept. 23, 2026, to coordinate internationally on safeguards for increasingly autonomous AI systems. Their appeal put frontier-model governance before diplomats at the same moment President Donald Trump was rejecting international schemes to control AI and pressing the United States to keep moving fast.

Sep. 23, 2026 - UN Security Council

Frontier AI Moves Into Security Diplomacy

OpenAI and Anthropic pressed governments to coordinate on safeguards for increasingly autonomous AI systems as the United States resisted global control schemes.

Security Council members briefed

AI companies at the briefing

Core areas for proposed standards

The 6-12 month warning, drawn to scale

6 monthslower bound

12 monthsupper bound

The warning centers on agent swarms becoming more capable before safeguards and verification catch up.

From lab practice to global rules

Measure capability

Track frontier progress and automated AI research.

Keep human review

Define when automated research requires intervention.

Report incidents

Use shared severity levels and rapid disclosures.

Support case

Shared standards could turn lab incidents into evidence governments can compare, verify and act on.

Critical case

Skeptics warn that coordinated slowdowns can look like self-policing or collective restraint by incumbents.

The fault line is control

AI leaders asked for global coordination. The U.S. position favors domestic capacity and best practices over a global regulatory scheme.

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