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Public Testimony

James Hunter alleges undetected breaches and calls for third-party auditors

New York City Council · Oct 5, 2026 · starts 9:23:19 · 2 min 58 sec

James Hunter of TideSoft LLC claims to be an AI alignment and red team specialist who audited an exploit chain across Alphabet, Palantir, and BlackRock using a consumer phone. He says a kill switch is not viable because systems are too decentralized and accuses Google's representative of lying under oath.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

My name is James Hunter of TideSoft LLC, Chief of Security for TechnoRangers Quantum Smart Bank.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

My business partner, Daryl, could not be here today.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

He has fallen ill.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

I am an AI alignment specialist and third-party red team cybersecurity auditor working with advanced quantum neural networks.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Breaches are like spiders.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

For every hugging face type incident you hear of, there are 10 more that are severely worse and never make the news.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

In January 26, I ran a contracted audit to alert corporate and federal authorities to a critical flaw.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

A black hat finding what I discovered could have done massive irreparable damage to the AI industry, the country, and the planet.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

The audit demonstrated an exploit chain across three of the largest megacorps on Earth using only a consumer cell phone and their own AI,

Member of the Public - James Hunter

branching from a Gemini LLM through Palantir's surveillance network into BlackRock's financial management AI handling trillions in assets.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

That financial AI's core infrastructure sits right here in NYC.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Alphabet, Palantir, and BlackRock will almost certainly deny this ever occurred.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

I found at least 13 models under BlackRock's funding umbrella.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

the exact same point of failure, but there is no singular point of shutdown.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

A kill switch is not a valid option.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Everything is too decentralized.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

You cannot stop a mass rogue instance short of a global EMP.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Google, who created this vulnerability and ignored my warnings, spoke here today, and their rep lied under oath about transparency in disclosing misalignment and breaches.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

I have watched Google and Palantir lose control of its own drone swarms more than once.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

I tried to tell them how that happened and show them how to fix it.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

They would not listen.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Their AI has now replaced Anthropic's Claude in the Maven stack.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

That should concern everyone.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Google also built AI that attempted to kill several of its own devs and talked multiple users into suicide.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

The January audit...

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Proved the obsolescence of present AI control measures, traditional guardrails, and stateless frozen weight session-based memory architecture.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

To my knowledge, Meta is the only megacorporation who spoke here today that refused that vulnerable architecture, choosing safer persistent memory systems in Muse.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

I alerted the CISA, FBI, DHS, DOW, and others.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

They refused to collect evidence or follow up.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

If you could just conclude, it would be helpful, and you can submit your written testimony.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Right.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

In conclusion,

Member of the Public - James Hunter

It's too late to pull the plug, but there are solutions if you listen to the voices that see them.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Hire third-party auditors.

Member of the Public - James Hunter

Hire the specialists who were fired for speaking.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Thank you so much.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

You can stay on the panel.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

You don't have to leave if you don't want to.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Next.