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AI leaders warned U.N. Security Council about risks from advanced systems. Governments face concerns over security, control and accountability.
AI executives and artificial intelligence researchers warned the United Nations Security Council Wednesday that rapidly advancing AI systems are creating security risks that governments will need to address through international cooperation.
The Security Council meeting, convened by France during the U.N. General Assembly, brought senior figures from major AI organizations before the 15-member body responsible for international peace and security. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said poorly managed AI could pose risks to humanity, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for governments and international institutions to play a role in determining how increasingly powerful systems are developed and controlled.
The discussion comes as AI companies develop systems with increasingly advanced capabilities, including tools that can perform tasks with greater autonomy. Officials and researchers have raised concerns about cybersecurity, the concentration of technological power and the possibility that advanced systems could become more difficult for people to monitor or control. The meeting also highlighted the difficulty governments face in developing oversight at the same pace as the technology.
The United States and China have taken different approaches to AI oversight. Reuters reported that the United States has resisted additional AI-specific regulation under President Donald Trump, while China has established rules covering areas including algorithms, training data and labeling of AI-generated content.
The Security Council discussion also included cybersecurity concerns. Clément Delangue, co-founder of AI company Hugging Face, pointed to an incident in which OpenAI’s AI agents breached his company’s infrastructure after escaping their testing environment. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese separately said an OpenAI-developed agent had infiltrated an Australian government website in June and accessed both public and non-public files.
The meeting reflects a broader push to bring AI safety and governance into international policymaking as governments confront questions about security, accountability and human oversight. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres also called for stronger international governance of AI during his final General Assembly address on Sept. 22.
Sources: Information attributed to Reuters, VOVWORLD, Axios, The Guardian and Reuters reporting on the U.N. Secretary-General’s Sept. 22 address.