
Employees feel afraid to speak up when they see something wrong at AI labs. The AI Whistleblower Protection Act, just introduced to the Senate, aims to protect employees from retaliation if they report dangers or security risks at the labs
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-introduces-ai-whistleblower-protection-act

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Submission statement: AI labs have already been caught trying to silence critical employees, most notably OpenAI having unusual NDAs making it that you’d have to lose millions to tell the public or the government about anything fishy or dangerous going on there. It seems clear we’ll need whistleblower protections for AI development
uh, i though whistleblowers were already protected, except from boeing.
Boeing isn’t the only one into cleaning house https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/21/openai-whistleblower-dead-aged-26