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UN Security Council holds high-level briefing on AI safety risk
OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei briefed the Council alongside scientist Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue.
Check our sources · 4 facts from 1 sourceThe UN Security Council held its 10228th meeting, on artificial intelligence and international security, on 23 September 2026. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Yoshua Bengio and Clement Delangue briefed the Council.
Altman told members that AI can usher in either a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray.
Amodei urged member states to pursue narrow agreements enjoying broad support, such as banning the use of AI to make biological weapons, alongside evaluation and verification systems and common standards for testing AI models.
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Fact 1 of 4 · from United Nations press release, 23 Sep 2026
Security Council, 10228th Meeting (PM), 23 September 2026 ... Ongoing Efforts to Create Powerful AI a Race Where Everyone Loses, UN Expert Tells Security Council
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narrow agreements that can enjoy broad support, such as a ban on using to AI to make biological weapons ... evaluation and verification systems ... common standards for testing AI models
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The UN Security Council held its 10228th meeting, on artificial intelligence and international security, on 23 September 2026
citeSecurity Council, 10228th Meeting (PM), 23 September 2026 ... Ongoing Efforts to Create Powerful AI a Race Where Everyone Loses, UN Expert Tells Security Council
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Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Yoshua Bengio and Clement Delangue briefed the Security Council at the meeting
citeBriefers listed: Yoshua Bengio, co-Chair of UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI; Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face
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Altman told the Council that AI can usher in either a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray
citea new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray
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Amodei urged member states to pursue narrow agreements such as banning the use of AI to make biological weapons, evaluation and verification systems, and common standards for testing AI models
citenarrow agreements that can enjoy broad support, such as a ban on using to AI to make biological weapons ... evaluation and verification systems ... common standards for testing AI models
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Ongoing Efforts to Create Powerful AI a Race Where Everyone Loses, UN Expert Tells Security Council
The UN Security Council held its 10228th meeting, on artificial intelligence and international security, on 23 September 2026
Security Council, 10228th Meeting (PM), 23 September 2026 ... Ongoing Efforts to Create Powerful AI a Race Where Everyone Loses, UN Expert Tells Security Council
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Yoshua Bengio and Clement Delangue briefed the Security Council at the meeting
Briefers listed: Yoshua Bengio, co-Chair of UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI; Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face
Altman told the Council that AI can usher in either a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray
a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery, or a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray
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Amodei urged member states to pursue narrow agreements such as banning the use of AI to make biological weapons, evaluation and verification systems, and common standards for testing AI models
narrow agreements that can enjoy broad support, such as a ban on using to AI to make biological weapons ... evaluation and verification systems ... common standards for testing AI models
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