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AI Now’s Aashna Agarwal Testifies before NYC Council Committee of the Whole
- Occurred
- Oct 7, 2026
- Published
- Oct 7, 2026
- Source
- AI Now Institute
Summary
On Monday, October 5th, 2026, AI Now Program Associate Aashna Agarwal testified before the New York City Council at a Committee of the Whole hearing on the concrete risks of AI acceleration. In her testimony, Aashna outlined three critical ways that AI companies’ capital interests conflict with safeguarding the public from the risks posed by […] The post AI Now’s Aashna Agarwal Testifies before NYC Council Committee of the Whole appeared first on AI Now Institute.
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Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Testimony on AI risks and policy discussion without concrete incident or harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8