On September 23, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, gave nearly identical speeches to the United Nations Security Council, emphasizing that artificial intelligence poses a global security risk unless nations work together to regulate it. The session, held under the French rotating presidency and led by France's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot, aimed to inform the fifteen council members rather than reach a formal decision. As a result, no binding agreements were made during the meeting. This was the second time the United Nations Security Council had focused on artificial intelligence. The first session in 2023 saw China cautioning against AI becoming a "horse without a bridle," while the United States expressed concerns about its potential use for censorship or repression. Both Altman and Amodei stressed the need for international collaboration to ensure AI is developed responsibly and transparently. Altman argued that decisions about AI should be made by democratic governments and institutions, rather than left to private companies. Just two days before the meeting, OpenAI released a proposal urging the United States to take the lead in creating international standards for AI technology, especially around systems that can improve themselves recursively. The proposal suggested connecting ten national AI security institutes—including those in the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and India—through the United States' Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI). The plan explicitly avoided any licensing or pre-publication requirements, and it referenced an incident at the AI company Hugging Face as an example of future risks, though it did not claim that recursive self-improvement was already occurring. Amodei presented a three-part plan during his video conference speech. First, he called for international agreements to ban AI from being used in the development of biological weapons. Second, he proposed mechanisms for states to check each other's compliance with these agreements. Finally, he suggested common testing standards and a system to report significant security incidents. Amodei acknowledged that coordinating efforts between democracies and authoritarian regimes would be the most challenging aspect of this work. The alignment between Altman and Amodei, two leading figures in the AI industry, contrasts sharply with the stance of the Trump administration. Just two days before the meeting, President Donald Trump stated he would not allow anything to slow down or hinder the growth of the AI industry. Despite this, the session attracted a wide range of participants, including AI researcher Yoshua Bengio, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue, and representatives from Chinese AI firms DeepSeek and Moonshot, all of whom shared concerns about the risks associated with AI.