New York City Council AI Hearing on Monday to Feature Testimony From Top Tech Executives
- On Monday, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin requested former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon to testify at an upcoming hearing on artificial intelligence safety as lawmakers weigh a package of bills establishing safeguards.
- Coxon resigned from Anthropic last month, issuing warnings that "people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade" and accusing his former employer and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives."
- Assemblymember Alex Bores, author of New York's frontier AI safety law, recently stated that states must regulate the technology while federal legislative progress remains slow.
- City lawmakers are weighing proposals ranging from mandatory safety evaluations to government-controlled "kill switches," with measures potentially requiring developers to register with agencies and maintain public safety plans.
- While federal policy moves slowly, state and local officials are increasingly stepping in to fill the regulatory void, reflecting a broader effort to direct the AI industry's trajectory.
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It's 'more likely than not' humanity loses control: Former AI insiders testify safety fixes may be 'duct tape that will fall off later'
Former insiders warned the NYC City Council about losing control of AI, while OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google couldn't say how big the risk is.
A former member of the American company Anthropic, Jacob Coxon, said at a hearing at the New York City Council that the development of neuronets to superintellect was threatening to exterminate mankind. "It is my belief that the current path would lead to the loss of control over I.I. and could end in the extinction of mankind," Coxxon said. According to him, developers behave recklessly, following a corporate culture of rapid product creation a…
The major artificial intelligence companies do not know how to prevent AI systems from pursuing targets that their developers have not assigned to them, he warned on Monday.
AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council as local governments
NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence insiders warned New York City’s leaders about the dangers of the emerging technology on Monday, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting concerns that the systems
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welingelichtekringen.nlLeading AI companies do not know how to prevent AI systems from pursuing goals that their developers have not instructed them to use. This warning was issued by whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former employee of ChatGPT parent company OpenAI and Claude creator Anthropic.
AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council as local governments take up safety concerns
Artificial intelligence insiders are warning New York City’s leaders about dangers of the emerging technology, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting safety concerns
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