Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 7, 2026Published at 2:04 AM EDT · New York

No frontier lab tells New York City Council it carries catastrophic-risk insurance

Representatives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta did not raise their hands when Speaker Julie Menin asked about insurance, as the council weighs a package of ten AI bills.

At a Committee of the Whole hearing on October 5, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin asked representatives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta to raise their hands if their companies held insurance against catastrophic AI risk. Non…