OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue on Wednesday briefed the United Nations Security Council on artificial intelligence and international security, amid warnings that increasingly powerful systems could improve themselves, slip beyond human control, and threaten global security, Reuters reported from United Nations headquarters.
The open session, chaired by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot during UN General Assembly week, follows AI Tech Daily’s earlier advance that Altman would brief the 15-member council. Wednesday’s meeting delivered the after-session record: multi-CEO risk warnings and an explicit push for cooperation beyond any single lab.
“If managed poorly, I even believe that AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” Amodei told the Security Council, according to Reuters.
Altman argued that democratic and international processes—not San Francisco labs alone—should shape the highest-stakes choices. “If AI is to be democratic, the most important decisions cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone. They must be shaped through democratic processes and by governments accountable to the people they serve,” he said. “At the international level, this will require cooperation.” He added that rivals have historically still joined for shared interests when a powerful new technology arrives, and that “this must be one of those times.”
Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the Independent International Scientific Panel created by the UN General Assembly, told the council the dangers are “real and imminent,” and that the chamber faces “an unprecedented threat” none of its members would choose, none can contain alone, and that “does not respect the borders we defend,” Reuters reported.
Governments remain split on how to oversee systems that move faster than regulation, with the United States and China divided over global guardrails versus market-led approaches. The council first met on AI risks in 2023 and again in 2024; Wednesday’s briefing put frontier-lab and scientific panel voices in the same open peace-and-security chamber.
This brief covers the post-session UNSC AI security briefing and the Altman, Amodei, and Bengio warnings on control, cooperation, and imminent risk. It is distinct from AI Tech Daily’s advance Altman “will brief” wire, from DeepSeek/Moonshot invite coverage, from UK Burnham UN AI standards diplomacy, and from Trump UNGA super-intelligence remarks.