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De La Rosa asks about Devin Kim's warnings on bioterrorism and rogue systems

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 1:02:07 · 47 sec

De La Rosa asks whether SpaceX agrees that safe AI requires identifying bioterrorism, AI-enabled cyber warfare, and rogue power-seeking risks and implementing mitigation; Castillo-Madrid says yes and describes training, red teaming, model cards, and ongoing monitoring.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Thank you.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Would you agree that, as Mr.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Kim warned, developing and maintaining safe AI involves identifying potential risks such as bioterrorism, AI-enabled

Carmen N. De La Rosa

cyber warfare, and rogue power-seeking systems and implementing processes to avoid and mitigating these risks?

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

Yes, we train our models to ensure they don't assist with dangerous activity.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

We evaluate them for misuse and attempts to get around safeguards and loss of control, and we monitor them after deployment.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

I also mentioned specifically for chemical and biological risks, we test with expert evaluations and red teaming before release, and we publish all these results in our model cards.