Amodei and Altman ask the UN for AI incident notification

Amodei asked the UN Security Council for a global ban on AI bioweapons and a system to notify other countries of AI security incidents.

Altman raised a parallel request in the same session. Both men lead competing frontier labs, and both are now on record asking for AI incident notification. That puts the eval and trace logs agent builders already keep for debugging on a path toward becoming compliance records.

He made the case in person on September 23, per the UN's meeting coverage. "If managed poorly... AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole," he said. His three asks: the bioweapons ban, verification systems so countries can check each other's commitments, and common testing standards paired with the notification system.

Altman's own ask was narrower: benchmarks that measure both AI capabilities and safeguards. He said the moment "calls for extreme care" and argued against both "blind optimism" and "doomerism."