Menin introduces whistleblower panel of former AI company researchers
Menin introduces the first whistleblower panel, calling Jacob Coxon to the stand in person and Daniel Kokotajlo and Alex Turner remotely. She describes all three as former employees of leading AI companies who have spoken publicly about advanced AI risks.
Thank you so much, Chair De La Rosa.
We are now going to start with our whistleblower panel.
In person, I'm going to first call Jacob Coxon to come to the stand.
And then online, we have Daniel Cocotilo and Alex Turner, who are both remote.
I want to say, as they're getting ready, I just want to say a word about this panel.
These three panelists have all worked inside leading AI companies and all have chosen to speak publicly about the risks of advanced AI.
So here with us, as I mentioned, in person is Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, where he worked on the development of frontier AI systems.
He left Anthropic last month with dire warnings that AI is advancing without adequate safeguards to prevent catastrophic damage.
Joining us remotely is Daniel Cocotilo, Executive Director of the AI
Futures Project, former OpenAI governance researcher.
Also remote is Alex Turner, an AI control researcher, formerly at Google DeepMind, now working on keeping advanced systems under human control.
In September 2026, he publicly stated that preventing catastrophic harm from frontier AI
had been part of his work at DeepMind.
And I want to note, the council has issued a subpoena for Mr.
Turner's appearance, and we deeply thank him for being here.