OpenAI insiders demand the right to blow whistle without fear of retaliation

Current and former Google DeepMind and OpenAI staff have signed an open letter calling for support and protection for whistleblowers and accountability among companies at the leading edge of AI development. Among the former OpenAI employees who have signed the letter is researcher Daniel Kokotajlo. While not mentioned by name …

[Snowy]

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Wants the rights to blow the whistle on them?

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

Trying to silence whistle-blowers is never a good sign. Gives me the impression that they're worried that whatever is coming out is merely the tip of the iceberg.

[Anonymous Coward]

" security and confidentiality of the technology being built."

BS of the day. What they actually are hiding is crimes: Ordinary office worker has no idea of the technology, therefore it's not about that.

[Will Godfrey]

Not the way I'd do it.

If I found I was in such a company, I'd quietly leave and get another unrelated job, then blow the whistle.

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: Not the way I'd do it.

The problem is the clawback clause, which makes blowing the whistle even after leaving potentially very expensive.

[OpenAI] recently released all employees from the contentious non-disparagement agreements

No, they did not. They made public statements about releasing employees from those agreements, but none of that has the force of law.

OpenAI remains a highly secretive organization with a byzantine structure and apparently no effective governance.