Altman and Amodei ask the UN Security Council for international AI standards and incident reporting

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Key facts

• Date: Sept 23, 2026, UN Headquarters, New York, during the 81st UNGA
• Altman asked for international standards for ‘measuring capabilities, assessing risks, determining whether safeguards are sufficient and preserving meaningful human oversight’
• Altman wants fast, accurate incident reporting so the ‘world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes’, plus secure channels for governments to share threat information
• Altman: AI could be ‘a new Renaissance of creativity and discovery’ or ‘a new Industrial Revolution of upheaval and disarray’; he named losing control and concentration of power as the two main dangers and warned against both ‘doomerism’ and ‘blind optimism’
• Amodei proposed narrow global agreements (e.g. a ban on AI for bioweapons), evaluation and verification systems so countries can check each other’s commitments, and common testing standards with an AI-incident notification system
• Amodei: ‘I believe that this is the most important global security issue facing the world today.’
• Came a day after Albanese’s call with Altman about the Medicare breach and amid Trump’s rejection of AI controls (CNBC)
• Altman: ‘It doesn’t matter whether people put the risk of catastrophe at 10%, or 1%, or 12%, or .1%. None of these levels are remotely acceptable.’