The former artificial intelligence researcher who resigned from his role at Anthropic and subsequently called for enhanced safety guardrails will testify alongside the leading AI lab’s safety representatives at a New York City council meeting on Monday.

Jacob Coxon, 27, did pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic for three years before abruptly and publicly leaving the private sector, sparking a nationwide debate about the importance of “pacing the frontier” and slowing AI development. Coxon’s comments were augmented by various supposed hacking incidents, the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident being the most prominent, and the public’s broadly negative view of the industry.