The Tech Policy Press newsletter is published every Sunday. Subscribe here to receive it in your email inbox.CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence and international security under “Maintenance of International Peace and Security” on September 23, 2026 in New York City. Tech industry leaders including the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face briefed ambassadors on the risks of artificial intelligence. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)Good morning!It was great to see so many from across the Tech Policy Press community in New York this week. Folks traveled in for the United Nations General Assembly, Climate Week and related events. Artificial intelligence and the concentration of tech power was a topic of discussion in the General Assembly hall and at debates and discussions hosted in smaller venues across the city.In his speech, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “we are witnessing an extraordinary transfer of power away from governments to a handful of private corporations and individuals,” and cautioned that “technological power alone cannot guarantee security.” He said humanity must govern artificial intelligence “before it governs us.”AI executives and experts gave speeches in the Security Council, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue, and Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s scientific panel on AI. Altman warned that “we…

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