Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks

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Openai Employees Lead Push To Protect Whistleblowe News

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A group of OpenAI's current and former workers are calling on the ChatGPT-maker and other artificial intelligence companies to protect employees who flag safety risks about AI technology.

A group of OpenAI's current and former workers is calling on the ChatGPT-maker and other artificial intelligence companies to protect employees who flag safety risks about AI technology.

Ziegler said in an interview Tuesday he didn't fear speaking out internally during his time at OpenAI between 2018 to 2021, in which he helped develop some of the techniques that would later make ChatGPT so successful. But he now worries that the race to rapidly commercialize the technology is putting pressure on OpenAI and its competitors to disregard the risks.

OpenAI said in response to the letter that it already has measures for employees to express concerns, including an anonymous integrity hotline. Social media outrage over language in OpenAI's paperwork for departing workers recently led the company to release all its former employees from those agreements.

The broader AI research community has long battled over the gravity of AI's short-term and long-term risks and how to square them with the technology's commercialization. Those conflicts contributed to the ouster, and swift return, of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last year, and continue to fuel distrust in his leadership.

 

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