Alex Bores says OpenAI lied under oath about RAISE Act support

Thank you so much, Assemblyman Boris.

Chair De La Rosa, Speaker Menon, members of the City Council, thank you for having us today.

I'm the author of the RAISE Act, and I can definitively say that OpenAI opposed it from the moment it was introduced to the moment it was signed.

I am no lawyer, but to me, my common man understanding of lying under oath is that it's perjury.

And at the very least, you should be extremely angry at the company for disrespecting this council and saying things they know to be false to you directly.

I'm very happy to cooperate with you or any of your lawyers if you want more information about what they said and when.

Second,

There have been a discussion of a lot of different issues today.

We can and should solve all of them.

In my time in the Assembly, I passed the RAISE Act on catastrophic risk.

I also worked with Senator Gonzalez on a bill on chatbots.

I worked with Senator Gernardis on a bill on content provenance and training data transparency.

And I found that the advocates that I worked with on each sub-issue were different, but the opposition was always the same.

Don't let the tech companies, don't let the AI companies divide us and say that in advocating for one issue, you're somehow harming advocacy for another issue.

What we are doing is building the muscle to hold them accountable and to ensure that it's the American people who decide the future of this most important technology.

Third, the time for voluntary commitments is over.

The voluntary commitments that were signed at the White House last week largely mirror voluntary commitments that were signed in 2023 in the Biden White House.

Promises have been made.

It is time for laws to hold people accountable.

And lastly, thank you, New York City, for stepping into your power.

There's going to be a lot online from the tech companies about how they can't comply with different cities doing all these different things.

It's the argument they use every time you try to regulate them.

But New York City is larger than 38 states.

All of the companies have large offices here.

It is absolutely within your power, and I dare say your responsibility, to take these threats seriously and to help decide the future of this technology to benefit all of us.

So thank you for recognizing that, and thank you for doing it.

Thank you all so much.

We've also been joined by Senator Gernardis on Zoom.

Senator, when you're ready.