Tony Jones proposes user AI safety training and user constitution

Hello.

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Good afternoon, everybody, or good evening, everybody.

Thank you very much.

I'm Tony Jones.

I'm a Brooklyn resident and co-founder of Creative AI Academy, a training company and instructor of AI design at the Pratt Institute.

I'm hopeful and heartened by the panelists'testimonies today and the intention of these committees on this crucial moment.

While I support the strong regulation of companies building frontier AI, and I see the proposed amendments aimed to address this, I'm here about the other half of the problem, the person at the keyboard.

The harm most New Yorkers will meet first comes from someone using the tool already in market.

Today, anyone with an email address can clone a voice, fabricate a photo of a real person, or write a convincing scam in minutes.

The tool asks nothing from them first, no training, no acknowledgement of risk, no promise of responsibility.

We regulate car makers, and we also require every driver to follow the rules of the road.

In my classroom, every student writes and signs a personal AI constitution, a short statement of how they will and will not use the tools that I am teaching them to use.

I propose the city ask the same of its citizens in the form of simpler than a license.

First, a short, free, city-provided safety training taken once before a person can open an account on an AI tool of a certain...

defined level of capability.

Second, assigned user constitution, a plain language commitment to use the AI honestly with no harm, language which users may incorporate into the account level personalization of the instructions

of the AI products they use as well as a second safety measure.

The signature will not stop a determined criminal and neither does a driver's license.

It simply sets a baseline for the millions of ordinary users who want to do right and have never been told what that means.

As a first step, I ask the council to start where its authority is clear, require this training and assign constitution for city employees who use AI on the job or AI vendors that contract with the city.

Then maybe we can press Albany for a statewide standard and set the standard for the rest of the country as well.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

I know that we can regulate the labs, but I ask that we ask something of the rest of us as well.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you so much.

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