SpaceX agrees to testify to NYC Council on AI safety

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 13 Oct, 20:38 · Archive

SpaceX has agreed to testify before the New York City Council about artificial intelligence safety risks, the council announced on Tuesday. The hearing will take place on Friday at 10 a.m. ET before the council's tech committee.

The council issued a subpoena to Elon Musk and SpaceX's AI unit on 28 September, compelling testimony for a hearing scheduled for the following week. Representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta all testified at that hearing on 5 October, along with safety experts and whistleblowers. SpaceX did not appear. Council Speaker Julie Menin said in a statement that SpaceX agreed to testify two days later, after the council said it intended to have the subpoena enforced by a judge.

Menin called SpaceX's initial absence 'unacceptable'. 'New 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,' she said. Councilwoman Carmen De La Rosa, chair of the technology committee, alleged that SpaceX had 'tried to circumvent our city's public conversation on the dangers of AI'. Musk folded his AI venture, xAI, into SpaceX in February, creating a conglomerate that includes its Grok models.

How it is being reported

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX set to testify at NYC Council hearing on AI safety after getting subpoenaElon Musk’s 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.New York Post · 13 Oct, 20:27
• SpaceX agrees to testify to NYC Council about AI safety after receiving subpoenaSpaceX has agreed to testify before the New York City Council as part of an investigation into AI safety risks.CNBC · 13 Oct, 10:00

In this story: SpaceX · New York City Council · Elon Musk · Julie Menin · Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · Meta

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