Ajit Singh raises privacy, deepfake, and accountability concerns

Thank you.

Ajit Singh, you may begin.

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Thank you, Speaker.

My name is Ajit Singh.

I'm a physician, informaticist, and public health practitioner in the H&H safety net system.

I'm profoundly concerned with the expansion of artificial intelligence tools, which enable corporations and government agencies to collect, analyze, and exploit

information about ordinary people on an unprecedented scale, often to facilitate discriminatory pricing, enable intrusive workplace monitoring, and expose vulnerable communities to predatory targeting and violence.

I'm urgently furious with how generative AI systems, including Grok, have enabled the proliferation of non-consensual deepfake imagery, child sexual abuse material, sycophantic manipulation of users, and mis- and disinformation,

undermining New Yorkers'ability to distinguish truth from false.

New Yorkers are resilient, but New Yorkers should not have to endure what our elected leaders have the power to prevent.

We must identify who bears responsibility, establish enforceable safeguards, and hold accountable those who violate them.

Companies such as SpaceX AI, whose empty testimony was presented before the Council today, must be compelled to transparency and accountability, disclosure, and accept responsibility when their technologies cause harm.

They're not trying to...

catch the bad actors.

SpaceX AI is a bad actor.