Altman and Amodei to brief UN Security Council on AI Wednesday

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are set to brief the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday in a session devoted to the future of artificial intelligence, as the technology dominates discussions at the annual UN General Assembly in New York.

A High-Stakes Council Session

The meeting, organized by France, which holds the rotating presidency of the 15-member council, will also feature briefings from Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's panel on AI, and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue, according to Bloomberg. Amodei is expected to participate remotely rather than in the chamber. An OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters that Altman's remarks will 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".thenextweb+3

The session marks only the second time the Security Council has taken up AI since it first discussed the technology in July 2023, when China warned it should not become a "runaway horse". According to a French conceptual note, the meeting will address the malicious use of AI and the risk of losing control of advanced models.ctvnews+1

Cooperation, Competition, and Antitrust Tension

The briefing comes amid intensifying debate over how rival AI labs should collaborate on safety. The Information reported on September 21 that OpenAI and Anthropic had negotiated a legally binding agreement earlier this year to mutually evaluate each other's models for vulnerabilities, with lawyers on both sides working to finalize the pact. Under the draft terms, each company would access the other's commercially available APIs while agreeing not to retain data.news.sbs+1

That cooperative impulse has already drawn legal scrutiny. On September 12, Amodei published an essay urging AI companies to slow the pace of development and calling for independent evaluators inside frontier labs. After Altman and Elon Musk publicly endorsed the proposal, subscribers filed an antitrust class action lawsuit on September 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Alphabet's ↘ 0.99% Google violated Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by coordinating to limit AI progress.apnews+2

Trump Rebrands AI at the General Assembly

Hours before the planned Security Council session, President Trump used his Tuesday address to the General Assembly to declare that the United States would replace "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" across all government documents. "The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake," Trump told world leaders. "It is not fake. It's actually amazing". Trump also rejected international efforts to regulate the technology, saying he would not "stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution".breitbart+1

The dual events — Trump's rebrand and the Security Council briefing — underscore the widening gap between Washington's deregulatory stance and the push by AI executives and allied governments for coordinated safety guardrails.