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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta Executives to Testify Under Oath at New York City Council AI Hearing

Senior executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta will testify under oath Monday at a New York City Council hearing on AI risks, as the council weighs legislation and presses SpaceXAI to appear.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-05 21:11

The session will be a rare "Council Committee of the Whole" hearing, meaning all 51 members are expected to attend, according to a release from New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin. The companies will be asked to explain the threats AI presents and to offer their views on potential legislative solutions, Menin said. The agenda posted online lists an 11 a.m. ET start.

Anthropic is sending Logan Graham, head of its Frontier Red Team. OpenAI will be represented by Morgan Dwyer, its head of policy development and operations. Google's director of AI and emerging tech policy, Alice Friend, will attend, as will Meta's AI policy director for legislation, Shane Cahill, Menin's office said Monday.

Menin said Meta confirmed its participation late last month, while Anthropic, OpenAI and Google agreed to appear only after the council threatened to subpoena them. The city issued a subpoena to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk last week requiring that he or another representative of the company's AI unit, SpaceXAI, testify. Menin said the council may seek judicial enforcement in New York State Supreme Court if SpaceXAI does not comply.

"Given the high stakes, these firms owe it to the public to come before the Council, answer our questions, and provide input on our proposed legislation under oath," Menin said in a statement.

The hearing follows mounting scrutiny of leading AI labs, most notably OpenAI and Anthropic, over their safety and security practices. Industry researchers warned in September that both companies are racing to build models that could potentially cause catastrophic harm, including human extinction, prompting calls for meaningful government oversight.

Concern intensified over the summer after OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached the open-source developer platform Hugging Face. Anthropic, Google and Meta subsequently disclosed other incidents in which their own models went rogue.