DeepSeek and Moonshot get invited onto Altman’s UN Security Council AI brief
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek will be among companies briefing the United Nations Security Council this week on AI risks, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in an exclusive carried by Yahoo Finance (Laurie Chen, Beijing, Sep 22), as leaders gather in New York for the annual UN General Assembly.
The 15-member Security Council, the body charged with international peace and security, is set to meet Wednesday to discuss AI and international security. That timing lands weeks after several AI industry leaders called for a coordinated slowdown of systems that could improve on their own and slip beyond human control.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to brief the meeting. Diplomats also expect senior Anthropic representatives, restating Reuters reporting from last week.
DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms including Moonshot have been invited to make statements, one source said. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng does not plan to attend. The same source cautioned that plans remain fluid and could change last-minute.
DeepSeek and Moonshot did not immediately respond to comment requests.
Reuters notes the Council first met on AI risks in 2023. China warned then that tech should not become a “runaway horse.” The United States warned against use to censor or repress.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned last week that rapidly advancing AI poses risks that cannot be ignored, at odds with Trump’s view that existing safeguards suffice. Chinese state media dismissed slowdown calls as a “Cold War playbook.”
Unlike U.S. frontier-lab leaders, the companies shipping the most capable general AI systems in each country, heads of China’s leading model developers have rarely publicly articulated catastrophic loss-of-control scenarios. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that U.S. and China officials agreed to further AI-safety talks ahead of Trump and Xi later this week.
Monday’s OpenAI standards ask already put Altman on the Wednesday calendar. Tuesday’s Reuters exclusive adds China’s open-weight champions, labs that publish model files anyone can download, to the same brief list.
Wednesday’s brief puts the labs that built the competing systems under one dome, on the same day, while Washington and Beijing still argue about hotlines and safeguards ahead of the leaders’ meeting.
Past the invite list, the governance fight borrowed the race’s cast.