SocietyAI glossary
Whistleblower
A person who reveals, from the inside, practices they consider dangerous or illegal. In AI, former employees of major labs have exposed shoddy safety testing or clauses that prevented them from criticising their former employer.
In other words
California now specifically protects employees of AI labs who report a serious risk.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- The week AI had to answer for itself
Patterns under oath, mandatory incident reporting, ads and GPT-6 in ChatGPT: the week's AI news in five minutes.
- Should we believe those who storm out?
Former AI researchers testify that their industry is moving too fast. Should we believe them? How to weigh the words of those who leave.
- New York puts AI giants under oath
The New York City Council put whistleblowers and the AI giants under oath. What was said, and what it could change.