OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman addressed the United Nations Security Council on 23 September, and the company published the remarks as delivered.
The concrete ask is institutional rather than technical. Altman called for a mechanism for complementary national and international frontier AI standards, covering how capabilities are measured, how risks are assessed, how to decide whether safeguards are sufficient, and how to preserve human oversight as systems become more autonomous. Countries need common standards, he argued, so they can compare evidence and verify compliance, alongside accurate and speedy incident reporting and secure channels between governments, critical infrastructure operators and technical experts for sharing new vulnerabilities.
He also said the industry must not accept too much technological risk simply because the benefits feel too important to slow down, that nobody should train models they cannot make a strong case for keeping under human control, and that he largely agreed with Yoshua Bengio.
Read it as positioning as much as policy. There is no treaty text, no named body to hold the standards, and. And the company asking for a yardstick is one of the handful that would be measured against it.