UN Security Council holds high-level briefing on AI safety risk
2026-09-25 · that day's edition
OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei briefed the Council alongside scientist Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue.
The UN Security Council held its 10228th meeting, on artificial intelligence and international security, on 23 September 2026. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Yoshua Bengio and Clement Delangue briefed the Council. Altman told members that AI can usher in either a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray. Amodei urged member states to pursue narrow agreements enjoying broad support, such as banning the use of AI to make biological weapons, alongside evaluation and verification systems and common standards for testing AI models.