OpenAI, Anthropic Chiefs Urge UN to Establish Global AI Rules

The chief executives of major artificial intelligence companies have urged world leaders to establish global rules for regulating AI, warning that poorly managed technology could pose serious risks to humanity.

Speaking at a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said artificial intelligence could become a threat to humanity if it was not properly managed.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also warned that humanity could “lose control of the future of AI” and argued that major decisions about the technology should not be left solely to private technology companies.

“If AI is to be democratic, the most important decisions cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone,” Altman said, calling for governments and democratic institutions to play a central role in shaping AI policy.

The meeting was convened by France during the UN General Assembly and brought together technology executives, government officials and AI experts to discuss the growing risks associated with the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

France and the United Kingdom supported calls for greater international cooperation, saying countries should establish common frameworks for governing AI.

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue also told the council that his company had recently faced attacks involving AI agents and had used a Chinese AI model to help defend itself.

However, the United States rejected proposals for international bodies to impose centralised global control over AI. US representative Michael Kratsios said Washington opposed efforts to establish international governance structures that would control the technology.

China and the United States are currently competing to develop increasingly advanced AI systems, making international agreement on broad restrictions more difficult.

The United Nations has previously taken steps toward developing international AI governance. In 2024, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted its first resolution on artificial intelligence, calling for measures to protect personal data, monitor AI-related risks and safeguard human rights.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has also warned that the future of AI should not be determined by a small number of countries or wealthy individuals.

Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, told the Security Council that the dangers posed by AI were real and required international cooperation because no country could address them alone.

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