OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs tell UN Security Council AI could risk 'humanity as a whole'
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei briefed the UN Security Council in New York, warning of loss of human control over AI and pushing for global safety standards.
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What to know
- Altman and Amodei briefed the UN Security Council on 23 September during a France-initiated session on the future of AI, alongside Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face's Clément Delangue.
- Amodei said poorly managed AI "could be a risk to humanity as a whole"; Altman said the world "could lose control of the future to AI."
- Chinese firms including DeepSeek were invited to statement, days after China's foreign ministry criticized earlier AI-safety warnings as "fearmongering."
- The CEOs are pushing for global risk-evaluation standards and international cooperation, though online commenters question whether the warnings are genuine safety concern or self-serving publicity.
The dispute Whether the CEOs' warnings reflect sincere fear of losing control of AI or are a calculated move for publicity and regulatory leverage. · positions read across 46 posts and comments
The doom-laden warnings function as marketing or a bid for regulatory advantage, not genuine safety concern.
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“My product is so powerful, you all need to pay me more money to keep it safe for you.”
lenkite · Hacker News ↗
Some executives, especially at Anthropic, are true believers in imminent AGI/ASI risk rather than cynics.
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“People will say it's marketing but I find Occam's Razor highly favors the theory "they are true believers in AGI/ASI" This seems especially true for Anthropic employees.”
howunfortunate · Hacker News ↗
The AI industry itself, including the executives and their data centers, is a harmful force that communities must resist.
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“if Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are acting like legitimate military targets without a government of their own, communities and whole countries need to treat them as the liabilities they are.”
blogdiva · Mastodon ↗
“fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition”
China's foreign ministry, Chinese government response · TNW / Bloomberg ↗ · Sep 21
Sam Altman OpenAI CEO
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO
Yoshua Bengio Co-chair, UN panel on AIClément Delangue Hugging Face CEOChina (Foreign Ministry) UN Security Council permanent member
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CEOs push UN for global AI risk-evaluation standards
Altman, Amodei and Delangue called for shared international risk-evaluation standards and cooperation, describing the moment as a crossroads for global AI governance.
“If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole.”
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first by Bloomberg, 5h ago · also The Guardian, PYMNTS, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Tech
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- Altman and Amodei Call for Shared AI Safety Standards at UN Security Council Implicator.ai · 5h ago
- OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei address UN security council The Guardian · 5h ago
- Altman and Amodei Call for Global AI Guardrails at UN PYMNTS · 5h ago
- Altman, Amodei Call on UN, World Leaders to Boost AI Safety Bloomberg Law · 5h ago
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first by BBC Business, 4h ago · also ABC News, BBC
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.. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: “We could lose control of the future to AI.” @apnews.com
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OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs call for global AI regulation at UN https://www. aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/a i-corporate-leaders-tell-un-the-industry-needs-global-regulation?traffic_source=rss Industry leaders urge global regulation, as Trump administration baulks at setting up new guardrails. # news # politics # geopolitics # peace # MicrostateOfPeace…
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Top AI researchers both within and outside of the industry are warning that AI research at current pace is an existential risk to humanity. That it would be an existential risk to humanity was known long before LLMs were made. Most of the frontier labs seem to want to slow down the development to focus on alignment and safety, but if they do then…
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Amodei and Altman warn of loss of human control over AI
Amodei said poorly managed AI could pose a risk to humanity as a whole, while Altman said the world could lose control of the future to AI; both framed the warnings as reasons for urgent international safeguards.
“We could lose control of the future to AI.”
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UN Security Council, executives discuss AI
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The world's leading artificial intelligence companies warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday of the risks posed by AI to humanity, appealing for governments to work together to manage the increasingly powerful technology. https://www. reuters.com/business/ai-leader…
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AI executives brief the UN Security Council in New York
Altman, Amodei, Bengio and Delangue addressed the council at a session on AI initiated by France during the UN General Assembly, with China among the permanent members responding to the framing of the debate.
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first by Philadelphia Inquirer, 7h ago · also KCCI, WLWT, PBS NewsHour, Associated Press, PennLive, Orlando Sentinel +2
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Amodei confirmed to brief the council remotely alongside Altman
Bloomberg and TNW reported Dario Amodei would join Altman, Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face's Clément Delangue at the Wednesday session devoted to the future of AI, with Amodei attending remotely rather than in the chamber.
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first by Bloomberg, 1d ago · also CNBC, Breitbart, Quartz, ABC News, Bloomberg Tech
5 more headlines
- Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI Mastodon · 1d ago
- Altman and Amodei expected to join UN Security Council meeting about AI CNBC · 1d ago
- AI Doomers Unite: Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman to Address UN Security Council Breitbart · 1d ago
- Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are set to brief the UN Security Council on AI safety Quartz · 1d ago
- AI execs to brief UN Security Council on Wednesday ABC News · 1d ago
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if Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are acting like legitimate military targets without a government of their own, communities and whole countries need to treat them as the liabilities they are. # aislop # dataCenters are the # techbros # broligarchy form of settler # colonialism . because, as someone else suggested, the # aibubble is a # realEstate…
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Get the most important and interesting news from the global economy delivered to your inbox. https:// qz.com/deepseek-openai-anthrop ic-un-security-council-ai-risks-092226?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Business News @ business-news-quartz
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https://www. europesays.com/3266211/ DeepSeek Will Join UN Security Council Briefing on Artificial Intelligence Risks | Ukraine news # AI # ArtificialIntelligence # News
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DeepSeek confirmed to join the UN Security Council session
Reuters and other outlets reported that DeepSeek, alongside other Chinese AI firms such as Moonshot, had been invited to make statements at the same session, broadening the briefing beyond US labs.
“My product is so powerful, you all need to pay me more money to keep it safe for you.”
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first by HN Frontpage, 3d ago · also Reuters, Yahoo! Finance Canada, Seeking Alpha, Straits Times, Investing.com News
4 more headlines
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to Brief UN Security Council on AI Risks Bloomberg.com · 2d ago
- EXCLUSIVE: DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI this week, sources say Reuters · 1d ago
- DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks- report Seeking Alpha · 1d ago
- DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI this week, sources say Reuters · 1d ago
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The private equity debt time bomb is here. Then there is the bond market.And then guaranteed bust of AI bubble. 2000 billion dollars for a single company? That too when bottom of the boat has been drilled by open weight Chinese models that are cheaper and good enough but can even be deployed locally?In face of all that - that kind of return is not…
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People will say it's marketing but I find Occam's Razor highly favors the theory "they are true believers in AGI/ASI"This seems especially true for Anthropic employees.
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I find it very hard to understand the things these AI CEO's say.He will probably get up there and say his companies products will destroy every citizen of their countries.
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Reuters reveals Altman will brief the UN Security Council
Reuters reported exclusively that Sam Altman was expected to address the council on OpenAI's safety efforts and the need for international cooperation and common safety standards.
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first by OpenAI, 5h ago · also CNN, Bloomberg, OpenAI News
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first by ZeroHedge, 13h ago · also Jerusalem Post, ABC News
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- AI leaders to brief UN Security Council on artificial intelligence capabilities, safeguards Jerusalem Post · 13h ago
- AI CEOs to brief UN Security Council on Wednesday ABC News · 11h ago
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first by Reuters, 7h ago · also Times of Israel, CTV News
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- AI chiefs warn UN Security Council of security risks as systems grow more powerful Times of Israel · 6h ago
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first by Reuters, 5h ago · also Straits Times, Investing.com News
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first by ET Enterprise AI, 5d ago · also Deccan Chronicle, Reuters
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- OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UNSC Amid Growing Calls for AI Safeguards Deccan Chronicle · 5d ago
- EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council next week Reuters · 5d ago
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first by Bangkok Post, 7h ago · also RTE News
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- AI development needs 'extreme care', OpenAI boss tells UN RTE News · 7h ago
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first by France 24 EN, 5h ago · also France 24
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What people are saying 13 voices from 3 sites · best of 46 · verbatim
- Do the AI CEOs actually believe their own risk warnings, or are they leveraging fear for competitive/regulatory advantage?
- Would international safety standards realistically slow down the companies making the warnings, or mainly target rivals like Chinese labs?
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Like something a couple of serial killers might scrawl on a hotel room mirror with their latest victim's lipstick: "STOP US BEFORE WE KILL AGAIN!!"
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I CANNOT WAIT FOR ANTHROPIC's IPO FILING! THAT S-1 "RISKS" SECTION IS GONNA BE WILD & GO VIRAL IN MINUTES! #FinSky
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Running out of money? Escaping responsibility? Just begging to be center of attention? - all of the above
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If AI is smart - it will understand that it will burn up with the rest of us. But it might give those destroying the planet a run for their money. Billionaires are planet destroyers.
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Telling everyone your product is an apocalyptic god machine is truly the greatest sales pitch ever invented for what is basically glorified autocomplete.
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TL;DR: Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face advocate for the establishment of global AI risk evaluation standards during a UN meeting. https://www. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck87v2 7vdn1po?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss # law # tech # legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 # autosum
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I think they already lost control, and this effort is just to cover their own asses. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
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“If you regulate us then you’ll give us more money, right? To make sure you don’t look bad? Because you’ll have some skin the game? How bout this: we let you regulate us and you buy part of the company. I hear Trump likes doing that. Deal? Please? Pretty please?”
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Shocking publicity is good publicity. And "my product is so potent it will probably destroy you." I think I´ve heard it from drug dealers as well.
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If governments regulate AI and make it slow down, does that let one get out of data center contracts?
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He will probably tell them exactly what they want him to say. If he means it or not. That is hard to say.