Speaking in New York on September 23, 2026, the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic urged global cooperation to manage rapidly accelerating risks that cross national borders.
The debate over machine intelligence reached the highest levels of international diplomacy as industry leaders joined a special meeting convened during the 81st United Nations General Assembly.
OpenAI and Anthropic Executives Issue Direct Warnings to the United Nations
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the 15-member council during a special meeting on AI held alongside the U.N. General Assembly that frontier models carry profound dangers alongside their vast potential. If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,
Amodei told the 15-member council during a special meeting on AI held alongside the U.N. General Assembly.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman echoed those concerns, telling international officials that the risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what’s happening or intervene when needed. Altman warned that humanity could lose control of future development if technical progression outpaces human oversight.
We could lose control of the future to AI,
Altman said. The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed. This would obviously be terrible.
Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of AI, reinforced those warnings. He described the dangers of AI beyond human control as an unprecedented threat for countries that none can contain alone and that does not respect the borders we defend.
France Pushes Artificial Intelligence to the Center of International Security
French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux told Fox News Digital in an interview that France is seeking to bring artificial intelligence to the center of international security discussions, with a special UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday featuring executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face. The Security Council session marked the first time chief executives from leading AI companies briefed the council at this level. Confavreux noted that recent cybersecurity concerns, including a reported hacking incident involving Hugging Face, underscore the need to address AI-related security risks at the international level. The meeting was chaired by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, alongside the Security Council’s 14 other members. Simultaneously, French President Emmanuel Macron led a separate meeting focused on protecting young people from the risks associated with AI and the digital age.
Divergent National Strategies and the Demand for Global Cooperation
The United Nations gathering unfolded against a backdrop of competing national approaches. The discussion at the U.N. also came a day after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would reject what he described as a globalist scheme
to control AI, while emphasizing that the U.S. should remain the global leader in the technology.
Despite political divisions, tech executives argued that shared survival requires setting geopolitical competition aside. Altman urged countries to work together on AI as the technology continues to advance.
If AI is to be democratic, the most important decisions cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone,
he said. They must be shaped through democratic processes and by governments, accountable to the people that they serve. At the international level, this will require cooperation.
In our history, there have been times where countries who compete and don't always like each other very much still come together for shared interests and the collective good in the face of a powerful new technology. We believe this must be one of those times. He added
Amodei emphasized a similar theme of collective responsibility, noting that no leader, no company and no nation can manage this alone.
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