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Maloney asks about open source risks and third-party license tracking

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 0:47:03 · 1 min 19 sec

Maloney asks whether risks are higher for open source technology and how SpaceX tracks risks after licensing to third parties; Castillo-Madrid says SpaceX cannot predict every misuse, relies on reporting and law enforcement partnerships, and has no particular opinion on open source risks.

Virginia Maloney

And then the second question here, if the chair is giving me time here, is if risks are higher for open source technology, and how do you track those risks after a license has been granted to a third party?

Virginia Maloney

How are you able to see if they've stripped down the safeguards and built something harmful that violate your policies?

Virginia Maloney

How do you track that?

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

Understood.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

To address the questions, we cannot predict every way a bad actor will misuse a frontier model.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

What we can do is treat reporting and partnership as elements of safety and further foreclose the opportunity to misuse.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

And we believe better information to law enforcement lets investigators act.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

And our goal is simple.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

Like I said, we're all on the same side.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

We want to make sure bad actors are not exploiting this technology.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

And we're here to make sure that our safety standards are kept at every step of the way.

Virginia Maloney

And do you think that those risks are

Virginia Maloney

or higher for open source technology?

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

I don't have a particular opinion on that, but what I will say is that we make sure that our safety protocols are always in place when it comes to SpaceX SI.

Virginia Maloney

So the cases of misuse are shared with law enforcement?

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

When appropriate, I believe they do.

Virginia Maloney

Thank you, Chair.