Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX agreed Tuesday to testify before the New York City Council about AI-related safety risks after being slapped with a subpoena, according to Council Speaker Julie Menin.<\/p>\n
The tech giant said it would send a rep this coming Friday after it ditched an initial AI safety hearing <\/a> featuring virtual appearances by officials from rivals Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta last week. Safety experts and whistleblowers such as ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon<\/a> showed up, too. Menin, a Manhattan Dem, called SpaceX\u2019s absence from the marathon session \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the US Institute of Peace last Thursday. AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/p>\n \u201cNew Yorkers and the public at large deserve to hear directly from the companies developing this powerful technology about the safeguards they are putting in place to protect people from harm and how they will be held accountable when those safeguards fail,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cSelf-regulation is not enough, and I am glad that we have now secured SpaceXAI\u2019s commitment to appear before the public in the coming week,\u201d Menin added.<\/p>\n The City Council first issued a subpoena compelling SpaceX\u2019s testimony on Sept. 28, shortly after the other four companies agreed to participate in the first hearing. After SpaceX ignored the demand, the body warned it would file a petition with the New York State Supreme Court to enforce the subpoena unless SpaceX complied.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear who will represent SpaceX at the second hearing. The Post has reached out to company representatives for comment.<\/p>\n Councilwoman Carmen De La Rosa, who chairs the body\u2019s committee on technology, alleged that SpaceX had \u201ctried to circumvent our city\u2019s public conversation on the dangers of AI.\u201d<\/p>\n City Council Speaker Julie Menin speaks during an open Council hearing on the impact of AI development and risks it could create at City Hall on Oct. 5. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n \u201cWith the proliferation of Elon Musk\u2019s technology at the federal level, it is even more important they come to the discussion with robust context about data privacy, safeguards, and whistleblower protections,\u201d the Manhattan Dem said in a statement.<\/p>\n Coxon \u2013 who quit Anthropic last month while warning of a \u201cgreater than 10% chance\u201d that AI wipes out humanity \u2013 told Council members last week that the AI industry was being \u201cextremely reckless given the stakes.\u201d<\/p>\n A SpaceX facility is seen beyond a shore near the Starbase on Sept. 29 in Boca Chica, Tex. Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cFrom my experience, the companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes,\u201d the youthful whistleblower said at the hearing. \u201cThe companies run on a startup mindset: move fast, break things, fix them later. That works for a photo sharing app. It does not work for building the most powerful technology ever built.\u201d<\/p>\n SpaceX, which consists of Musk\u2019s rocket and satellite business as well as his xAI artificial intelligence unit, went public in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX agreed Tuesday to testify before the New York City Council about AI-related safety risks after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66,288,301,2411,19077,9,56,63,65,64,56699,1601],"class_list":["post-372464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-city-council","tag-elon-musk","tag-julie-menin","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-spacex","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372464","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=372464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}