Ben Daly

Commercial property will cost between $1.7-$2.1B in annual revenue. We’re over $100M in debt after 2 years of 10+% tax increases. MBTA - $30B in repair, BPS buses late. Congestion pricing harms workers who don’t have luxury of remote work. We should welcome any/all back Downtown!

Parking is not reason cited for anemic housing #’s in Boston. Developers say added affordable housing/energy requirements on top of high interest rates, construction costs. Let’s focus on economic development, not parking purity tests. Neighbors know cars will park on the street.

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My concern: Councilor Flynn is raising concerns apt BPD's collaboration w/ ICE on matters that don't involve criminal detainers (Flynn focuses on "open" cases). That's a shot across the bow at the Trust Act. Worth noting: challenging laws governing BPD may foment insubordination.