On September 23, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei each gave remarks on AI safety at the UN Security Council. Altman called for AI development to be led by democratic institutions and kept under human control; Amodei proposed that the international community establish an agreement banning the use of AI to develop biological and chemical weapons and set up global testing standards.
In mid-September 2026, Anthropic CEO Amodei called on frontier companies to jointly slow the pace of AI development in order to buy time for establishing safety standards, winning support from OpenAI CEO Altman, Musk, and others.
Anthropic co-founder Amodei published a long article arguing that China's lead in artificial intelligence poses a serious threat to the United States and the world, and backing Washington's restrictions on selling powerful AI chips to China; Chinese state media Global Times said his claims of containing China are an unrealizable delusion, and China's Foreign Ministry said it has noted the relevant remarks.
Anthropic CEO Amodei's advocacy for further restricting China's access to advanced chips has sparked a strong backlash in China, making it even harder for those concerned about AI safety within the country to speak out.