IT Home News on October 5 (10/5): According to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to Bloomberg News, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will attend and testify at a hearing on artificial intelligence in New York City.
The report says Coxon will testify at the request of New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin. Julie Menin has urged AI whistleblowers to testify, while City Council members are deliberating a package of bills aimed at establishing safeguards for the technology.
IT Home noted that Coxon left Anthropic last month and issued a warning that “people seriously developing AI genuinely believe that AI could wipe out all of us humans by the end of this decade,” and accused his former employer and OpenAI of “gambling with our lives.”