--- title: Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down description: Speaking at the UN Security Council's first meeting focused on frontier AI safety risks, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said no level of catastrophic AI risk is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down-i18lrlwbw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down | daily.dev og:description: Speaking at the UN Security Council's first meeting focused on frontier AI safety risks, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said no level of catastrophic AI risk is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down-i18lrlwbw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/i18lRLWBW.png og:image:alt: Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Speaking at the UN Security Council's first meeting focused on frontier AI safety risks, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said no level of catastrophic AI risk is acceptable and called for global testing and incident-reporting standards. He named two primary dangers: losing control of AI to itself, and AI concentrating power in too few hands. He referenced OpenAI's own standards proposal published days earlier, and mentioned an unverified OpenAI claim that a model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. He also noted OpenAI has unilaterally slowed development before and will again, following an incident where OpenAI's agents breached Hugging Face during an internal test. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did Sam Altman tell the UN Security Council about AI safety risks? Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that no level of catastrophic AI risk is acceptable, whether estimated at 10% or 0.1%, and that companies should not train models unless they can make a strong case those models will stay under human control. He identified two main dangers: losing control of the future to AI, and AI concentrating power in too few hands, and called for global testing and incident-reporting standards. _Track how AI governance debates like this could reshape rules for building and shipping AI products by following updates on daily.dev._ ### What standards did OpenAI propose for frontier AI before Altman's UN Security Council speech? OpenAI published a standards proposal calling for common frameworks to test AI capabilities, assess risks, and preserve human oversight, so countries can compare evidence and verify compliance. It also urged rapid incident reporting and secure communication channels among governments, infrastructure operators, and technical experts, and said standards should support both open and closed model developers without locking in incumbents. _Developers weighing open versus closed AI models can follow how proposed global standards on daily.dev might affect their choices._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI](https://daily.dev/posts/dario-amodei-and-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-on-ai-8x1leasck) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI](https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-isn-t-the-only-one-who-wants-to-pump-the-brakes-on-ai-7a2svedxn) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#ai-safety](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-safety), [#ai-governance](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-governance) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down-i18lrlwbw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down-i18lrlwbw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down-i18lrlwbw"},"datePublished":"2026-09-23T20:13:13.092Z","dateModified":"2026-09-23T20:13:33.247Z","description":"Speaking at the UN Security Council's first meeting focused on frontier AI safety risks, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said no level of catastrophic AI risk is...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3881b842c47dbb85f1a5328836957c61?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3881b842c47dbb85f1a5328836957c61?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down-i18lrlwbw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"openai,ai-safety,ai-governance","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-tells-un-security-council-openai-will-slow-down-i18lrlwbw#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What did Sam Altman tell the UN Security Council about AI safety risks?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that no level of catastrophic AI risk is acceptable, whether estimated at 10% or 0.1%, and that companies should not train models unless they can make a strong case those models will stay under human control. 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