New York City Council to consider a ban on launching SI without outside review and mandatory "kill switches"; former Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff to testify Monday
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The city is trying to put outside review and a kill switch on SI — if they are adopted, models will have to prove their right to launch before release, not after.
A hearing in the New York City Council is scheduled for Monday at the request of Speaker Julie Menin. According to Bloomberg, Jacob Coxon, who left Anthropic last month warning that SI creators "sincerely believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade," will speak; Alex Turner (ex-DeepMind) and Daniel Kokotajlo (ex-OpenAI) will also testify, and Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta will send representatives — some agreed after a subpoena threat. According to Gothamist, the package of bills includes a ban on launching SI without third-party review and mandatory human-controlled "kill switches," as well as rewards for whistleblowers, a private right of action for "jailbreaks" and 24-hour incident reporting for city contractors.