{"id":364392,"date":"2026-10-04T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364392\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:14:08","slug":"former-anthropic-researcher-coxon-to-testify-at-new-york-city-ai-hearing-bloomberg-news-reports-wtaq-news-talk-97-5-fm-%c2%b7-1360-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364392\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Anthropic researcher Coxon to testify at New York City AI hearing, Bloomberg News reports | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM \u00b7 1360 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 4 (Reuters) \u2013 Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will testify at \u200ba New York \u200cCity hearing on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar \u200cwith \u200bthe matter.<\/p>\n<p>Coxon \u2060will appear at \u2060the request of New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who \u200bhas urged AI whistleblowers to testify as \u2060city lawmakers \u2060weigh a package \u200bof bills aimed at establishing \u200bsafeguards around the technology, \u200cthe report said.<\/p>\n<p>Coxon quit Anthropic last month, issuing warnings that the \u201cpeople \u2060building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us \u2060all \u200cby the end \u2060of the decade\u201d \u200band\u00a0accusing \u200chis former employer\u00a0and OpenAI \u200bof \u201cgambling \u2060with our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Harishankar Manoj in BengaluruEditing by Nick \u200bZieminski)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 4 (Reuters) \u2013 Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will testify at \u200ba New York \u200cCity hearing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-364392","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\/364392","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=364392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}