Sophie Cody criticizes AI CEOs and urges Council to listen to the public
Sophie Cody of the NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group criticizes Altman and Amodei and the anthropomorphic language used for AI. She says harms to women and children, including deepfake pornography and child abuse material, should have been enough to call this hearing and urges the Council to listen to the public.
Hi, thank you, Council, although I think I'm the first without the speaker in the audience to hear.
Should we wait for her to come back?
You can go ahead.
You can go ahead.
Thank you.
So thank you to the council for hosting this important hearing.
My name is Sophie Cody.
I am a member of the NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group, although I am not speaking on their behalf tonight.
Instead, I want to talk about the two men whose comments were the impetus of this hearing, Sam Altman and Dario Amadei, AI CEOs at the helm of this crisis.
As this hearing continued, I've heard a lot of anthropomorphic language used to describe AI models.
They understand, they think, they can break containment, they have agency, they grow.
Dario Amadei even implied that Claude may be conscious.
These men show a cultish concern for the unproven claims of superintelligence and the consciousness of their own models, and they do not care about women or children that are harmed by their products at all.
Stories abound, and we heard them tonight, of women and girls being victims of AI.
AI notification tools and deepfake pornographic images and videos.
AI is used to generate child sexual abuse material.
We also heard about that tonight already.
AI sex slaves are advertised to young boys online.
Sam Allman and Dario Amadei both actively collaborate with our rapist-in-chief, Donald Trump.
These men claim they need help controlling themselves, their technology.
At work, online, and in our personal lives, we hear phrases like, we need to embrace Claude, and use phrases like, AI is being shoved down our throats and forced upon us.
We heard that it's inevitable.
Does that sound familiar?
I am appalled that it takes statements of these men to call this hearing.
What I listed above should have been enough.
Sam Altman is a deranged sociopath.
Dario Amadei is in a cult.
These men are drunk drivers behind the wheels of this runaway bus that nobody asked to be on.
Right now, New Yorkers have the opportunity to be the anchor in this tug-of-war for power between the people and these tech billionaires who believe more in the consciousness of their own AI than the humanity of women.
I close with an appeal to you, the City Council,
Listen to us, not them.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your testimony.