OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief an open UN Security Council meeting in person next week during UN General Assembly week. The 15-member council meets Wednesday on AI and international security. Remarks are expected on OpenAI safety steps plus international coordination and shared safety standards.
Sam Altman will brief the United Nations Security Council in person next week while world leaders gather in New York for the annual UN General Assembly, an OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters in an exclusive report from the United Nations.
The Security Council’s 15 members are due to meet Wednesday on artificial intelligence and international security. The timing follows recent calls from several AI industry leaders for a coordinated slowdown in frontier development, with warnings that systems could improve on their own and slip beyond human control.
“Sam Altman will brief an open UN Security Council meeting in person next week,” the OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters. “His remarks are expected to focus on the steps OpenAI is taking to ensure AI is safe and benefits people globally, along with the need for international coordination and shared safety standards.”
What that chamber does: the Security Council is charged with maintaining international peace and security. It first met on AI risks in 2023, when China warned the technology should not become a “runaway horse” and the United States warned against using AI to censor or repress people, Reuters noted. An open briefing means the session is public-facing rather than a closed consultation.
Altman has discussed existential AI risk for years. Reuters cited his 2015 essay “Machine Intelligence, part 1,” which called the development of superhuman machine intelligence “probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.”
This brief covers the confirmed UN Security Council briefing plan. It is distinct from California Governor Gavin Newsom’s AI kill-switch review executive order and from U.S. Hill packages on interruptibility. The news here is the UN peace-and-security venue and the expected focus on international coordination.