Altman and Amodei expected to join UN Security Council meeting about AI (2 minute read)

# Altman and Amodei expected to join UN Security Council meeting about AI Source: [https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/altman-amodei-unga-ai-safety.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/altman-amodei-unga-ai-safety.html) [Tech](https://www.cnbc.com/technology/) Published Tue, Sep 22 202611:57 AM EDTUpdated Tue, Sep 22 20261:30 PM EDT Key Points - OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei are expected to address the U\.N\. Security Council this week\. - Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue is also expected to speak\. - The debate about AI safety and regulation has reached a boiling point following a chorus of warnings about the risks to humanity\.  [OpenAI](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/OPENAI.FG/)CEO[Sam Altman](https://www.cnbc.com/sam-altman/)and[Anthropic](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/ANTHR.FG/)CEO Dario Amodei are expected to address the[United Nations Security Council](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/trump-un-speech-today.html)for a meeting about[artificial intelligence](https://www.cnbc.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/)this week, a U\.N\. spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday\. [Hugging Face](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html)CEO[Clément Delangue](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/hugging-face-china-ai-race-open-models.html)is also set to join, along with Yoshua Bengio, a professor at Université de Montréal who co\-chairs the Independent International Scientific Panel of the United Nations on AI, said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the secretary\-general\. The meeting is set for Wednesday, according to[Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-22/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-to-brief-un-security-council-on-ai), which was first to report the news\. The U\.N\. General Assembly in New York this week comes as the debate around AI safety and regulation has reached a boiling point following warnings from researchers about the[dire risks to humanity](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html)\. President[Donald Trump](https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/), who has repeatedly dismissed the warnings as a "hoax" and "scam" over the past week, addressed the assembly on Tuesday and pledged to "encourage" the nascent technology, despite calls from Amodei and Altman to pace the development of advanced models\. "I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," Trump said\. "Many say bigger than the industrial revolution or the internet itself\." OpenAI's disclosure in July that its AI models broke out of a testing environment and[autonomously hacked](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/open-ai-cyber-models-hack-hugging-face.html)into open\-source developer platform Hugging Face set off a wave of concerns about the rise of[advanced models](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/open-ai-hugging-face-hack.html)and how much they can be contained\. Since then, Anthropic has also disclosed cyber incidents with its models, and OpenAI has revealed further "[concerning model behavior](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/openai-6-new-instances-of-concerning-model-behavior-since-march.html)" by autonomous agents\. Last week,[Google](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/GOOGL/)said that its[Gemini model hacked](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/googles-gemini-becomes-latest-ai-model-to-break-out-and-hack-computer-systems.html)into three other companies\. *— CNBC's Jim Forkin contributed to this article\.* ## Read more CNBC tech news - [Elon Musk talks up AI safety while fighting regulation in wild week of strange alliances](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/after-decade-of-clashes-in-ai-elon-musk-forging-strange-alliances.html) - [OpenAI's latest AI revelation is a 'serious situation,' Microsoft's Suleyman tells CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/microsoft-ai-ceo-openais-latest-ai-revelation-a-serious-situation.html) - [Anthropic and OpenAI need truly independent safety evaluators, experts say in public letter](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/ai-safety-evaluators-anthropic-openai-models-security.html) - [AI safety debate meets reality at Dreamforce as business leaders say last year's models are enough](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/at-dreamforce-business-leaders-say-older-ai-models-are-enough.html)