New York City Council Presses AI Companies Under Oath as It Weighs Disclosure and Safety Bills

New York City lawmakers questioned AI company representatives and former industry employees under oath on October 5 as the Council considers a package of bills that would impose new disclosure, validation and incident-reporting duties on AI systems used or sold in the city. The hearing put Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta before a rare Committee of the Whole as local officials test how far city-level AI oversight can go.