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Oct 7, 2026
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Menin called that answer flippant at best.
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Google's Alice Friend said there is no rigorous method for such a forecast yet.
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When Menin asked which companies carry insurance against catastrophic risk, nobody raised a hand.
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None of the four said directly whether their company would be liable if a rogue AI caused a death, and none promised that a failed safety test would stop a release.
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It's got Shane Cahill, a big wig there on, uh, policy, direction, and legislation.
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And then you've got Google's Alice Friend, Director of AI and Emerging Technology, Anthropic's Logan Graham, head of their Frontier Red team.
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Uh, big issues, uh, lawmakers are gonna be pressing them on.
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Uh, 10 pieces of AI legislation, including AI kill switches, uh, which requiring AI systems to have a way for a human to shut them down.
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Council Speaker Julie Menin said the labs must explain AI risks and weigh in on a package of about ten proposed local AI bills after Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google agreed to appear only when the council threatened subpoenas.
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Named witnesses include Anthropic frontier red team head Logan Graham, OpenAI policy lead Morgan Dwyer, Google AI policy director Alice Friend, and Meta AI legislation director Shane Cahill, alongside whistleblowers Jacob Coxon, Alex Turner, and Daniel Kokotajlo.
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SpaceX AI was separately subpoenaed with possible court enforcement if it skips.
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For agencies shipping client agents on these stacks, this is a public record risk and disclosure story your buyers will quote back to you.
Jacob CoxonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think some sort of agreement globally about not entering that state of affairs is basically the key to the whole situation.
Sienna ReindersHOST
Alice Friend, an AI leader at Google, says companies shouldn't just accept bad things happening.
Alice FriendSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It will be a collective effort to identify and mitigate risks, to establish technical standards to make those identifications and mitigations all the more rigorous.
Sienna ReindersHOST
Today's hearing