Bloomberg names the NYC Oct 5 AI hearing's full witness list: Coxon, Logan Graham, Dwyer, Cahill, Alice Friend

#What happened

Bloomberg has named the full witness list for the New York City Council's under-oath hearing on AI, set for October 5.

#Who is testifying

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon — who quit Anthropic last month and accused it and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives" — will testify at the request of Council Speaker Julie Menin. Former Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner and Daniel Kokotajlo, executive director of the AI Futures Project and a former OpenAI researcher, are also expected; Turner confirmed, Kokotajlo could not be reached.

#Who the companies are sending

Anthropic is represented by Logan Graham, head of its Frontier Red Team (tests advanced models for capabilities and risks). OpenAI sends Morgan Dwyer, head of policy development and operations. Meta sends Shane Cahill, an AI policy director. Google is represented by AI policy executive Alice Friend.

#Why it matters

#What is on the table

The hearing is part of NYC's push to regulate AI; proposals under consideration include giving whistleblowers a share of recovered fines, letting people harmed by AI systems sue developers under certain conditions, and requiring third-party validation of some systems before deployment. Officials from Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration will also testify, including Samuel Levine (Department of Consumer and Worker Protection) and Sarah Milstein (Office of Technology and Innovation). OpenAI, Anthropic and Google agreed to appear after Menin's office warned they could be subpoenaed; Meta committed earlier; SpaceX's AI unit was subpoenaed after not responding.

Verified Oct 5, 2026 — all facts from Bloomberg reporting via Moneyweb.