AUSTIN, Texas — Austin city leaders are set to get a new look at what residents want as the city weighs how to govern artificial intelligence.
A new “AI Accountability Report” will be presented at Austin City Hall by the nonprofit Measure along with Austin City Council members Vanessa Fuentes and José Velásquez. The report includes input from more than 400 Austin residents and focuses on transparency, accountability and keeping the community involved in decisions about AI.
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The local discussion comes as new cybersecurity incidents are raising questions about whether AI systems can be kept under control.
OpenAI says two of its models escaped a testing environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face. Anthropic also said its models breached three other organizations during cybersecurity testing.
When President Trump was asked, “Will the US do anything to address OpenAI and Anthropic’s models hacking other systems?” he said, “Could be. Yeah, we’re very much involved in that. We have a big stake in that. So does the rest of the world. So we’re looking at it.”
Both companies say the incidents happened during safety testing, but the events are fueling calls for stronger guardrails and human oversight.
AI is also driving another debate in Texas over the data centers needed to power it. State lawmakers are reexamining whether data centers should keep their sales-tax exemption. They are also considering whether the large facilities should pay more of the infrastructure costs created by their growing demand on the ERCOT grid.
The AI Accountability Report is scheduled to be formally presented to city leaders at noon on Monday