AI executives and whistleblowers testify at New York City Council hearing
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Senior representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath before the New York City Council on Monday about risks from advanced artificial intelligence and the safeguards their companies have adopted.
Council Speaker Julie Menin pressed the executives on issues including legal liability for serious harm caused by AI and the possibility of catastrophic outcomes. She called their responses “troubling at best” after none offered a quantified estimate of catastrophic risk. Menin said Anthropic, OpenAI and Google agreed to attend only after the council threatened subpoenas; Meta had confirmed its participation earlier.
The hearing also featured warnings from current and former industry researchers. Anthropic whistleblower Jacob Coxon described the sector’s approach to development as “extremely reckless” and said humanity could lose control of advanced systems. Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo urged companies to increase transparency and slow development of leading models. Former Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner warned that misaligned AI could be everyone's adversary and one day may be more powerful than China.
Company witnesses included Anthropic Frontier Red Team head Logan Graham, OpenAI policy executive Morgan Dwyer, Google director of AI and emerging tech policy Alice Friend and Meta AI policy director for legislation Shane Cahill. Friend supported a comprehensive federal framework for AI risks and said conduct that is illegal without AI remains illegal when AI is used.
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AI executives and whistleblowers testify at New York City Council hearing
Senior representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath before the New York City Council on Monday about risks from advanced artificial intelligence and the safeguards their companies have adopted.
Council Speaker Julie Menin pressed the executives on issues including legal liability for serious harm caused by AI and the possibility of catastrophic outcomes. She called their responses “troubling at best” after none offered a quantified estimate of catastrophic risk. Menin said Anthropic, OpenAI and Google agreed to attend only after the council threatened subpoenas; Meta had confirmed its participation earlier.
The hearing also featured warnings from current and former industry researchers. Anthropic whistleblower Jacob Coxon described the sector’s approach to development as “extremely reckless” and said humanity could lose control of advanced systems. Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo urged companies to increase transparency and slow development of leading models. Former Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner warned that misaligned AI could becomebe aeveryone's adversary and one day may be more powerful adversary.than China.
Company witnesses included Anthropic Frontier Red Team head Logan Graham, OpenAI policy executive Morgan Dwyer, Google director of AI and emerging tech policy director Alice Friend and Meta legislativeAI policy director for legislation Shane Cahill. Friend supported a comprehensive federal framework for AI risks and said conduct that is illegal without AI remains illegal when AI is used.
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