SpaceX Agrees to NYC AI Safety Testimony After Sept. 28 Subpoena Threat
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Updated · CNBC · Oct 13
SpaceX Agrees to NYC AI Safety Testimony After Sept. 28 Subpoena Threat
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Oct 13
Summary
Friday’s 10 a.m. ET hearing will bring SpaceX before the New York City Council’s tech committee after the company skipped an Oct. 5 session on AI safety risks.
Sept. 28 subpoenas to Elon Musk and SpaceX’s AI unit initially went unanswered, and the company agreed to testify only after the council said it would ask a judge to enforce them.
Julie Menin said SpaceX’s absence from last week’s hearing was “unacceptable,” while tech chair Carmen De La Rosa said lawmakers want answers on data privacy, safeguards and whistleblower protections.
The investigation comes as Musk’s xAI has been folded into SpaceX, whose Grok models are used by some federal agencies, and as lawsuits mount over deepfake porn generated with Grok’s image tools.