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Today I testified for BetaNYC before the NYC Council's Committee of the Whole at its hearing on artificial intelligence.

AI is a question of power: who has the power to consume the world's knowledge and resources, and who controls the companies that do?

Our own research shows the gaps. We asked five AI assistants about the Council's own AI law. Of the three that answered from memory, none knew it. One assistant confidently called the City's Open Data Law a building façade law, and named the previous Council Speaker as the current one.

We asked the Council to revive and fund COPIC, define New York's vision of digital sovereignty, and resource the Office of Algorithmic Accountability, the Office of Data Strategy, and a new Open Source Programs Office, in partnership with CUNY.