Under oath, four AI firms would not say if AI could be catastrophic.
New York's city council questioned OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta under oath on Monday. The four would not say if AI could cause a catastrophe, or if they release unsafe models. The council speaker called the answers an equivocation, and Musk's AI company skipped its subpoena.
Why it mattersNine bills before the council would let New Yorkers sue over harm from an AI agent. If they pass, one city would hold AI companies to rules Congress has not written.
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