Menin asks administration about OpenAI cyber coordination letter

Great.

Thank you so much for your testimony.

We appreciate it.

I've got a number of questions.

So OpenAI sent the City Council a letter on October 1st recommending that New York City better connect

its existing cyber and emergency management capabilities, and I'm just reading from the letter, with the escalation, containment, and recovery capabilities of frontier AI companies.

So has the city of New York this year met with OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other frontier AI company to discuss how the city would coordinate with them in the event of a serious AI-related cyber or public safety incident?

Thank you for the question.

I'm going to defer to my colleague, CJ Dixon.

Thank you.

So I would like to note that New York City Cyber Command follows the NIST cybersecurity framework for all of our cyber programming.

That is everything from identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.

The basic first principles in cybersecurity have not changed, even with the advent of artificial intelligence.

And we have been in conversations with various frontier models about how we may integrate their tools and software to better enhance the functions that we already deliver to the city.

So in reference to your question, yes, we have been in conversation with the frontier AI companies to enhance the way that we perform cybersecurity.

However, those basic cybersecurity controls have functionally remained the same.

So you've met with OpenAI and Anthropic in particular?

We have met with Anthropic.

I have not met with OpenAI since coming on board on May 5th.

Okay.

Are you planning on meeting with OpenAI?

Only based on that, only...

Dependent on our needs right now.

We do not know definitively if there is a valid reason for us to meet with any frontier AI company.