Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told a rare full hearing of New York City Council that AI companies are ‘extremely reckless’ and cannot control their models. We cover the testimony, the companies’ answers under oath, the subpoena fight, the ten bills including kill switches, $25,000 fines and whistleblower rewards, and what UK firms selling AI into New York should prepare.
In a Decoder interview published 31 August 2026, New York Governor Kathy Hochul called AI “in one sense a necessary evil” and challenged the industry to “make it less evil”. This piece walks through what she actually said: the Executive Order 62 moratorium on hyperscale data centers of 50MW or more, the 30 applications that triggered it, St. Lawrence County’s one-reactor problem, the AI review of state regulations that saved 1.5 million hours, the 81 percent of likely-displaced jobs held by women, her Flock camera objections, the Meta teen-safety settlement, and what her “less evil” standard signals for businesses deploying AI.
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