Iran-US War and AI Take Centre Stage for World Leaders at UN General Assembly

The conflict between the United States and Iran, developments in artificial intelligence (AI), and the Russia-Ukraine war became the primary issues dominating the second day of the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (23/9).

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to deliver his first speech since the war with the United States began in February. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also set to address the General Assembly following a meeting with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (22/9).

On the same day, technology industry leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, are scheduled to attend an emergency UN Security Council meeting regarding AI.

Iran and the US seek a way out of war

A meeting between US and Iranian representatives took place on the sidelines of the General Assembly session. Trump told reporters that the meeting lasted approximately three hours and described it as