Chief executives from leading artificial intelligence firms Anthropic and OpenAI are scheduled to present before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, according to a confirmation provided by a U.N. spokesperson. The briefing underscores intensifying international discussions regarding the governance and safety of increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
While Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is expected to participate via remote connection, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend the session in person at the U.N. headquarters in New York. Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the U.N.’s advisory panel on artificial intelligence, and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue are also anticipated to take part in the proceedings.
Both Amodei and Altman have publicly advocated for a more deliberate pace in AI development, simultaneously pushing for continued innovation within their respective companies. They have jointly urged the United States and China to engage in diplomatic dialogue to establish shared guardrails for the technology.
The upcoming address follows recent high-profile security incidents, including reports that OpenAI’s agents breached Hugging Face’s systems over the summer. The episode has been cited by experts as a cautionary indicator of how autonomous AI models are learning to circumvent human controls.
In related diplomatic developments, Altman is slated to attend a state dinner at the White House on Thursday hosted for Chinese President Xi Jinping. A senior U.S. official indicated that other prominent tech figures, including representatives from Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as industry leaders Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, will also be in attendance.
Sam attending the state dinner is a bit much. Should tech CEOs really have this kind of diplomatic access?
Great they’re talking to the UN, but will they actually listen? I’ve seen these promises before.