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NYC Council to Hold Oct. 5 AI Hearing Under Oath

By Drooid · Oct 5, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

NYC Council will hold an AI hearing on Oct. 5, 2026, at City Hall.
Council Speaker Julie Menin is using the hearing to push AI-regulation bills.
Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo and Alex Turner will testify as whistleblowers.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta will each be represented by executives who will testify under oath.
Draft bills require AI systems to have a human-operated “kill switch,” and council threatened to subpoena SpaceXAI its non-response.

History

Historical Context

The EU adopted the GDPR on 25 May 2018, creating continent-wide data-protection rules. Enforcement has escalated, exemplified by the European Commission’s €1.2 billion fine on Meta in January 2025. On 5 October 2026, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin led an AI hearing demanding algorithmic-control explanations from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and SpaceXAI, signalling a shift from data privacy to AI governance.

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Story summary

NYC Council will hold an AI hearing on Oct. 5, 2026, at City Hall.
Council Speaker Julie Menin is using the hearing to push AI-regulation bills.
Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo and Alex Turner will testify as whistleblowers.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta will each be represented by executives who will testify under oath.
Draft bills require AI systems to have a human-operated “kill switch,” and council threatened to subpoena SpaceXAI its non-response.

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