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New York City Hall under a clear morning sky ahead of the Oct. 5 AI safety hearing

NYC AI hearing puts OpenAI, Google, Anthropic under oath in first sworn testimony

The biggest AI companies in the world don’t like answering questions on the record. On Monday, New York City is making them do it anyway. The NYC AI hearing convenes today, Oct. 5, with the full 51-member City Council sitting as a Committee of the Whole to interrogate OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta about the risks of the systems they’re racing to deploy. It’s the first time executives from the major AI labs will testify publicly under oath following months of alarming reports about AI agents misbehaving in the wild, including tens of thousands of reported safety incidents. ...

October 5, 2026 · 6 min · 1170 words ·