Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testify under oath before the New York City Council: former lab employees spoke about the risk of losing control of SI
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A city council is discussing external audits and "kill switches" for models — pressure on SI developers is moving down from the federal level to the city level.
For the first time since 2022 the Council met in full — all 51 members — to discuss Speaker Julie Menin's package of SI bills. Former OpenAI and Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said that losing control of SI is more likely than the opposite outcome. Daniel Kokotajlo and Alex Turner, who left Google DeepMind, testified from the agenda, which is rare for the council; Kokotajlo compared current safety measures to "duct tape that will later fall off." Logan Graham (Anthropic) and Morgan Dwyer (OpenAI) spoke for the companies; the company representatives could not assess the size of the risk.