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Maloney asks what categories of AI misuse SpaceX tracks

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 0:43:14 · 1 min 58 sec

Council Member Virginia Maloney asks what categories of misuse SpaceX tracks beyond sexualized deepfakes and hate speech; Castillo-Madrid describes terms of service, catching bad actors, and training, red teaming, and model cards for chemical and biological risks.

Virginia Maloney

Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Speaker Menon.

Virginia Maloney

We've spent some time talking about some of the potential misuses of the platform and that you have a safety team and that you're tracking these instances.

Virginia Maloney

But I'd like to dig in more specifically into cases where AI is being misused.

Virginia Maloney

What are some of the categories of misuse that you do track?

Virginia Maloney

We've talked about some of them today.

Virginia Maloney

Unfortunately, the sexualized deepfakes issue.

Virginia Maloney

There are instances of hate speech, including anti-Semitism.

Virginia Maloney

What are some of the other misuses that your team is tracking?

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

So we have terms of services where we lay out all our policies and what is considered use or misuse of the platform.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

Our biggest concern here is making sure that we're catching bad actors that are trying to get around those policies and the safeguards that we have implemented.

Virginia Maloney

So could you be more specific about what the largest categories of misuse are?

Virginia Maloney

We've talked about two so far.

Virginia Maloney

I'd love to hear from the experts, the companies, of what those misuses are that you're seeing.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

We engage in rigorous training throughout the model development, including pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, and adversarial stress testing.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

That means we try to make sure that anything that we sort of input into the...

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

The system, make sure that it's not violating any of our policies.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

We have strict policies around a number of things.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

For example, for chemical and biological risks, we test with expert evaluations and red teaming before release, and we publish results in our model cards as well.

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

If you have any specific questions on that, the model cards are very detailed on how

Member of the Public - Gabriela Castillo Madrid

and what risks were, or what our policies are focused on.