Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council on AI
Dario Amodei will join Sam Altman, Yoshua Bengio, and Clément Delangue at Wednesday’s council session on the future of AI, according to a meeting programme.
September 22, 2026 - 12:37 pm
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
Credit: Anthropic
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday, alongside OpenAI’s Sam Altman, at a session devoted to the future of AI, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Instead of attending in person, Amodei will participate remotely.
The briefers also include Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s panel on AI, and Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face.
Last week, an OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters that Altman is expected to discuss OpenAI’s safety efforts and the importance of international cooperation and common safety standards. Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Moonshot have also been invited to make statements.
The UN body responsible for international peace and security, the council, first discussed AI in July 2023, when China cautioned that the technology must not become a “runaway horse.”
Initiated by France, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the council, the upcoming session will address the malicious use of AI and the risk of losing control of advanced models, as stated in a French conceptual note.
The meeting takes place during the UN General Assembly when world leaders meet in New York. It follows a series of warnings about AI safety, including one from Amodei, and amid growing demands for countries to coordinate their approaches to regulating the technology.
On 12 September, Amodei outlined his position in an essay asking AI companies to slow the pace at which they improve their models and suggested that independent evaluators should have continuous access to frontier labs. Altman and Elon Musk publicly supported this request.
China, as one of the five permanent members of the council, responded. According to its foreign ministry, two days later, “fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition” would only serve to disrupt global AI governance.
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