{"id":364372,"date":"2026-10-04T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364372\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:34:07","slug":"former-anthropic-researcher-coxon-to-testify-at-new-york-city-ai-hearing-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364372\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Anthropic researcher Coxon to testify at New York City AI hearing, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will testify at a New York City hearing on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Coxon will appear at the request of New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who has urged AI whistleblowers to testify as city lawmakers weigh a package of bills aimed at establishing safeguards around the technology, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Coxon quit Anthropic last month, issuing warnings that the &#8220;people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade&#8221; and accusing his former employer and OpenAI of &#8220;gambling with our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Harishankar Manoj in BengaluruEditing by Nick Zieminski)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Reuters or USA Today via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will testify at a New York City hearing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-364372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}