OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face Brief UN Security Council

Executives from three of the world's leading AI companies briefed the UN Security Council on Wednesday amid warnings that increasingly powerful AI systems could soon improve themselves, slip beyond human control, and pose a threat to international security, according to Reuters' reporting, carried by CP24.

Among those addressing the 15-member Security Council during the annual General Assembly gathering were OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue, three of the industry's most prominent executives, connecting directly to our earlier coverage of Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition of Delangue's company. Amodei was direct in his warning to the council: "If managed poorly, I even believe that AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole."

This wasn't a routine industry appearance. The UN Security Council, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security, met for the first time on the risks of artificial intelligence in 2023, when China said the technology should not become a "runaway horse" and the United States warned against its use to censor or repress people, according to an earlier CP24 report on the lead-up to Wednesday's session. An OpenAI spokesperson said ahead of the briefing that Altman's remarks would focus on the steps OpenAI is taking to ensure AI is safe, alongside the need for international coordination and shared safety standards, with Altman separately expected to urge world leaders to adopt benchmarks for measuring AI capabilities and assessing companies' safeguards.

A genuinely significant detail buried in the broader diplomatic context is worth understanding directly. Ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington the following day, the US and China have discussed setting up a notification system for common goals and common threats that would cover AI-related incidents rising to a national security level, according to Reuters' reporting. That's a genuinely concrete, bilateral mechanism distinct from the broader multilateral debate, worth watching closely as a possible first practical step toward US-China AI safety coordination.

This briefing lands directly against the backdrop of our earlier coverage of Trump's UN General Assembly speech renaming AI "super intelligence" and rejecting global regulation entirely. Trump reiterated that same position just a day before this Security Council session: "We're leading now over China by a lot, and everyone else, and we're going to keep it that way. I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution. We're going to encourage it, not rein it in. We're going to watch it closely through the Department of Justice."

UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the broader General Assembly proceedings by calling for stronger international cooperation on AI, warning "the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety," according to an earlier CP24 report on his remarks. Guterres armed his address with a new UN science report warning of a "slight but real potential of catastrophic and irreversible harm," and delivered a genuinely vivid warning in his farewell address to world leaders: "Killer robots must have no place in our future," according to a separate CP24 report on the same session. This connects directly to our earlier reporting on Canada's AI Minister Evan Solomon pushing the G7 toward a formal AI safety organization, landing squarely inside this same week's genuinely fractured global governance debate.

This UN Security Council briefing is worth understanding for any business tracking the likelihood of coordinated international AI governance, since it represents the clearest, highest-level formal venue yet for the industry's own leading executives to directly address global security concerns, distinct from the more informal public statements and essays we've tracked throughout September.

For businesses evaluating multi-jurisdictional AI compliance risk, the parallel US-China discussion around a national-security incident notification system, however preliminary, is worth watching closely as a genuine, concrete first step toward bilateral coordination between the two dominant AI powers, even as the broader multilateral governance debate remains genuinely unresolved.

Who briefed the UN Security Council on AI risks?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue briefed the 15-member UN Security Council on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, amid warnings about increasingly powerful AI systems.

What did Dario Amodei tell the Security Council?
Amodei told the council, "If managed poorly, I even believe that AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole," reinforcing warnings he has raised publicly throughout September about the need for coordinated industry safety measures.

Are the US and China coordinating on AI safety?
The two countries have discussed setting up a notification system covering AI-related incidents that rise to a national security level, ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, even as the two countries remain publicly divided over whether AI needs global regulatory guardrails.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue briefed the UN Security Council on AI risks, with Amodei warning that poorly managed AI "could be a risk to humanity as a whole." The briefing lands directly amid a genuinely fractured global governance debate, following President Trump's UN General Assembly speech rejecting international AI regulation and UN Secretary-General António Guterres's own warning that "the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety." Separately, the US and China have discussed establishing a notification system for AI-related national security incidents ahead of a meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi, offering a genuinely concrete, if preliminary, step toward bilateral coordination between the two dominant AI powers.