SpaceX has agreed to testify before the New York City Council's tech committee this Friday at 10 a.m. ET as part of an investigation into AI safety risks. The council subpoenaed Elon Musk and SpaceX's AI unit on Sept. 28, but SpaceX did not appear at the Oct. 5 hearing where Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified. Council Speaker Julie Menin called the absence “unacceptable” and warned that ignoring the subpoena could bring penalties. The committee wants answers on data privacy, safeguards and whistleblower protections, and SpaceX also faces lawsuits claiming its Grok image generator was used to mass-produce deepfake porn. The article notes that since Musk folded xAI into SpaceX, AI regulation now touches the whole company.
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