The hearing on Oct. 5 allows all 51 council members to interrogate the firms after an OpenAI agent accessed non-public Medicare portal files in Australia in June. While the major AI companies agreed to participate, the council issued a subpoena to compel testimony from Elon Musk and SpaceXAI. The probe coincides with newly introduced, first-in-the-nation legislation that would mandate independent third party validation for AI models to end the industry's practice of self-policing.
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Anthropic Whistleblower and AI Execs Testify After Government Data Hacks
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Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, is testifying before the New York City Council today to allege that leading AI developers are gambling with lives by ignoring critical safety guardrails. Appearing alongside executives from Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, Coxon, who resigned last month, will address the need for regulations and a "kill switch" for artificial intelligence systems that may become too powerful for human control.
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