u/border_dad
· 5h
Oct. 5. 51 members. SpaceXAI ordered. Keep those three stamps.
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic agree to attend AI hearing in NYC after subpoena threats
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October 5. All 51 council seats. SpaceXAI got the subpoena.
Summary
- The New York Post reports Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic agreed Monday to send representatives to a rare all-51-member New York City Council hearing in October after Council Speaker Julie Menin threatened subpoenas.
- Menin first sent request letters. Only Meta answered. A follow-up letter naming subpoena power brought Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic into the room. She said the firms employ tens of thousands of New Yorkers and owe the public sworn answers.
- Elon Musk's SpaceXAI was the only invited company that did not respond to the threat, the Post says, prompting the council to issue an order legally requiring attendance.
- The Oct. 5 hearing is billed as the first public, under-oath testimony by major AI firms on risks and safeguards. It lands with bills introduced last week, including human-override kill switches for AI agents and cash rewards for whistleblowers.
Commentary
A Queens night dad still clocks a loading dock and knows a City Council gavel is supposed to mean a pothole, not a first-in-the-nation oath for the models that already sit in his kid's homework tab. He did not pay the levy so a kill-switch bill could be written in the dark.
Oct. 5. 51 members. Three firms after a subpoena letter. One Musk shop ordered in. The vinyl chair in that council well still holds the household that already bought the overtime.
Look every working father who still pays a New York electric bill in the eye and answer this: if only a subpoena letter already moved the labs, who still owns the next kill-switch line written without the oath?
Comments
If only a subpoena letter already moved the labs, who still owns the next kill-switch line?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so an oath still meant a record. A request letter is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Menin. Meta first. Then Google, OpenAI, Anthropic. Print the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied cities still treat under-oath AI testimony as a lock, not a panel.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Kill switches. Whistleblower cash. First sworn hearing. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next model on a public record.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A homework-tab model is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A 51-seat oath next to a Musk subpoena is a second border around every honest shop.
u/press_clip
· 30m
The Post printed Menin, Oct. 5, and SpaceXAI. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the oath. Keep the record. A kill-switch bill is not a souvenir.
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