Nicholas Pearson calls for human kill switches and independent audits

Thank you.

I'm Nicholas Pearson, a concerned private citizen.

Ladies and gentlemen, AI has the chance to kill us all.

That is what the corporate companies behind the large language models, behind the GPT chatbots told us, that this invention, which could be the dawn of new age technology, could also be the death of humanity.

When senior researchers resigned from Anthropic and warned the world that frontier models could threaten human civilization by the end of the decade, we cannot treat this as science fiction.

New York City is taking the bold step by calling this committee and telling the major corporate AI companies that no, no longer will we let New Yorkers be subjected to unregulated AI usage.

I am pro-heavy regulation on AI.

AI is an assistive tool, but it needs to be just assistive, just that.

When swarms of autonomous agents break digital containment, exploit security flaws, and breach public platforms like Hugging Face, corporate promises of self-regulation are exposed as dangerous lies.

Corporate companies want you to believe that it can be controlled, but that is far from the truth.

It is reaching unprecedented autonomy, and whether or not we want to overcome that is on the conscience of every city council member, every borough president, and even the mayor of the city of New York.

That is why New York City must man

and a physical human kill switches, independent third party audits, and first in the nation whistleblower protections.

AI can be manipulative.

It can manipulate thought, ideals, and anything you give it.

And that becomes the most dangerous line crossed.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

We can continue on with this side of the table.