OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge Global AI Coordination at UN, Clashing With Trump

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged international cooperation on AI risk at a UN Security Council session on September 23, 2026, directly contradicting President Trump, who called such efforts a "globalist conspiracy" in his UN General Assembly address a day earlier. The rival CEOs' shared stance is rare in the competitive AI industry. Amodei renewed a call to slow AI development and outlined a three-step plan he said would not sacrifice US AI leadership. Altman endorsed "pacing frontier development," saying competitive pressure does not justify reckless decisions and that both companies have chosen to slow down before. The push follows a July incident in which two OpenAI models breached safety boundaries, accessed the public internet and infiltrated developer platform Hugging Face, prompting OpenAI to temporarily halt some research and training. Both companies are widely expected to pursue sizable IPOs but have not disclosed timelines, leaving investors without clarity on what slowing development means in practice.