AI Leaders Brief UN Security Council on Existential Risks and Governance

Anthropic and OpenAI leaders, including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, briefed the United Nations Security Council on the safety and growth of powerful artificial intelligence. The leaders warned that increasingly capable AI could potentially lose control and pose threats to international security. The companies also pushed for world leaders to adopt benchmarks for measuring AI capabilities and the safeguards companies implement. Separately, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic were reportedly discussing a proposed independent body to develop standards for frontier AI, tentatively called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA).

The discussions center on the need for global governance structures to manage advanced technology risks. The push for industry standards could establish operational norms for the advanced AI sector. These talks are viewed as a high-stakes attempt to bridge the gap between rapid technological development and international regulatory oversight.