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AI chiefs ask the UN Security Council for rules and Washington refuses

OpenAI and Anthropic pressed for international safety standards this week; the White House rejected the idea outright and Meta and Nvidia sided with it.

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What happened

Executives from leading artificial intelligence organisations urged global cooperation on Wednesday to address risks from increasingly autonomous AI systems during a UN Security Council meeting axios.com. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman appeared in person, while Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face chief executive Clem Delangue joined by video conference axios.com. Altman told the meeting that AI can either be more like a new renaissance of creativity and discovery, or more like something else, saying that we have a choice in front of us axios.com. Amodei said that if managed poorly, he believed AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole semafor.com1news.co.nz.

The United States rejected the pleas from OpenAI and Anthropic for global AI standards bbc.co.uk. Altman has called for risk evaluation standards, as have Amodei and Delangue bbc.co.uk. Trump told the General Assembly that the United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control artificial intelligence, and said it would henceforth be officially called super intelligence pivot-to-ai.com.

Why it matters to investors

The unusual feature is which way each side is pushing. The labs building the systems are asking to be evaluated bbc.co.uk, while the administration is declining to build the machinery to do it pivot-to-ai.com. Trump's call to leave AI exactly where it is contrasts even with Chinese leader Xi Jinping's position, leaving the White House isolated in brushing off AI safety semafor.com.

Industry is not unified behind the labs either. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls for cooperation on safety gizmodo.com, and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang characterised fears over AI's existential threats as a distraction that is not grounded on science semafor.com. That split matters for pricing regulatory risk, because it means the lobbying pressure on Washington runs in both directions at once bbc.co.uksemafor.com.

What to watch

Congress is the channel where the public position and the private one may diverge. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he does not believe Trump is really dug in against guardrails for AI, despite the president's public campaign against restricting the technology axios.com. Thune said he spoke privately with Trump as the issue was getting hot and reads the president's pushback as aimed at public paranoia and noise around the subject axios.com.

Thune also reads Trump's position as a preference for companies devising ways to secure their own systems rather than Congress or the administration doing it, an approach that relies more on outside experts for guidance axios.com. Watch whether any capability-based evaluation regime emerges from that route bbc.co.uk, and whether the labs keep asking publicly for rules their largest peers are arguing against gizmodo.comsemafor.com.

Sources

  1. ft.com: OpenAI breach of Australian government linked to wider AI hacking campaign (2026-09-24)
  2. bbc.co.uk: US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards (2026-09-23)
  3. semafor.com: Top AI bosses issue stark warning to UN on safety risks (2026-09-23)
  4. semafor.com: White House is isolated in brushing off AI safety (2026-09-25)
  5. axios.com: "We have a choice": AI leaders sound alarm at UN (2026-09-23)
  6. gizmodo.com: Zuckerberg Is Feeling Himself, Rejects Calls for Cooperation on Safety - Gizmodo (2026-09-25)
  7. semafor.com: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismisses AI fears as 'distraction' (2026-09-24)
  8. pivot-to-ai.com: Trump decrees: Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence (2026-09-23)
  9. 1news.co.nz: Tech leaders to UN: Please control the AI technology we created - 1News (2026-09-24)
  10. axios.com: Exclusive: Thune believes Trump is open on AI guardrails despite public defiance (2026-09-23)