Former OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind employees urge AI companies to expand whistleblower protections to publicly address AI risks amid growing concerns over the “deprioritization” of safety.
Former employees of leading artificial intelligence (AI) developers are urging these pioneering AI companies to enhance their whistleblower protections. This would enable them to voice “risk-related concerns” to the public regarding the advancement of sophisticated AI systems.
On June 4, 13 former and current employees at OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude) and DeepMind (Google), along with the “Godfathers of AI” — Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton — and renowned AI scientist Stuart Russell started the “Right to Warn AI” petition.
The statement aims to establish a commitment from frontier AI companies to allow employees to raise risk-related concerns about AI internally and with the public.