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Turner argues for lowering state and city reporting thresholds

New York City Council · Oct 5, 2026 · starts 0:40:12 · 53 sec

Menin asks whether California and RAISE Act thresholds should be lower. Turner says yes, arguing a billion-dollar damage threshold is too high and that the city should at least be privately informed of internal rogue swarms.

Julie Menin

When you mentioned the California Act and then in addition to New York, we obviously have the RAISE Act.

Julie Menin

Should those standards be lower before they kick in?

Member of the Public - Alex Turner

Yes, I think they should.

Member of the Public - Alex Turner

I'm most familiar with the California Act, and I think it was a good start, but it's certainly, you know, a billion dollars of damage is too high for informational purposes like this.

Member of the Public - Alex Turner

We've got basically one of the quantities we want to understand as precursors to these catastrophic risks is, are these companies even able to

Member of the Public - Alex Turner

to control and understand their own systems.

Member of the Public - Alex Turner

If they're on the loose internally and there's these swarms that are doing who knows what, that's something that the city should at least privately be informed of.

Julie Menin

Now, Mr.

Julie Menin

Kokotayo, you had mentioned two policy recommendations.