Chief executives from leading artificial intelligence companies warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that unchecked artificial intelligence poses grave risks to global security and human civilization.
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman told council delegates that critical choices must be made to prevent the technology from causing widespread upheaval and slipping beyond human oversight. Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei addressed the fifteen-member council remotely, cautioning that mismanaged models could become an existential threat to humanity as advanced capabilities accelerate. The industry leaders jointly called for international evaluation protocols, safety testing standards, and agreements to prevent autonomous systems from being weaponized.
Altman stressed that governance over frontier artificial intelligence should be established by accountable democratic governments rather than private corporate labs alone. The high-level session took place during the annual United Nations General Assembly amid mounting debates between world powers over global technology regulations.