Andrew Gounardes on Grant whistleblower protections to AI s…

Andrew Gounardes

New York state senator

We want to offer those protections to those employees so they can come forward and feel safe doing so so we can know actually what's going on as these technologies are being developed.

AI Verified (Jan 23, 2026)

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Andrew Gounardes, interview on New York NOW, January 23, 2026.

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Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers

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AI Verified Gounardes explicitly supports protections enabling AI-company employees to report serious risks safely. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Gounardes says protections let AI-company employees report serious harms safely; for matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified PBS/New York NOW transcript attributes this exact statement to Senator Andrew Gounardes. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI labs should conduct risk assessments before high-stakes internal deployment of frontier models

A large frontier developer shall write, implement, comply with, and clearly and conspicuously publish on its internet website a frontier AI framework that applies to the large frontier developer's frontier models and describes in detail how the large...

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

It requires companies [...] to create and share [...] protocols before they deploy these models publicly. [...] And then it requires [...] to complete an annual assessment [...].

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