❯ Altman and Amodei urge the UN Security Council to build shared AI safety standards, as Trump calls the idea a “globalist scheme”

a joint appealOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke separately to the UN Security Council on Sept. 23. Both urged governments and industry to coordinate on AI safety standards and critical decisions. France, which holds the council’s rotating presidency this month, organized the session.

their proposalsAmodei proposed three forms of international cooperation: narrow global agreements such as a ban on using AI to build biological weapons, evaluation and verification systems so countries can check each other’s commitments, and common testing standards backed by an AI security incident notification system. He also said Anthropic has committed to embed external evaluators inside the company, likening them to “food inspectors.” Altman warned that humanity “could lose control of the future” and said OpenAI has deliberately slowed development before and would do so again. He singled out recursive self-improvement as a risk and said major decisions should be made by democratic institutions accountable to the public.

the split outsideIn the weeks before the session, several incidents of AI agents going rogue came to light, and calls to slow down have grown louder inside the industry. But Trump called international AI oversight a “globalist scheme” the same day, Fortune reported. Without U.S. government support, the verification and notification systems the two CEOs proposed have no place to take effect.

▪ SIGNALThe two biggest frontier labs asked the Security Council for regulation, but their own government openly opposes it, so these proposals will stay speeches for now.