AI Risks Take Center Stage at UN Security Council Briefing
On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei are set to brief the United Nations Security Council on artificial intelligence risks tied to international security.
The session is being convened by France under the 'maintenance of international peace and security' agenda, with a concept note highlighting risks from autonomous systems capable of recursive self-improvement.
Chinese AI firms DeepSeek and Moonshot have been invited to speak, along with Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue and Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.
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