Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers

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Arguments for

Accountability and transparency

Supporters argue that protecting AI whistleblowers would make companies more transparent and accountable by helping employees share information about concerning practices, safety problems, and wrongdoing without fear. They present whistleblowing as a way to strengthen public confidence that AI firms can be held to their own safety, governance, and ethics commitments.

As AI becomes more embedded in modern culture and global infrastructure, the need for accountability has become increasingly necessary. That is why the passage of the AI Whistleblower Protection Act (AIWPA) is one of the National Whistleblower Center’s (NWC) central policy goals.

National Whistleblower Center · Jun 21, 2026 · full quote
Chair Grassley’s Whistleblower Protection Act would significantly improve AI company employees’ ability to share information about concerning practices inside their companies.

Helen Toner · Apr 22, 2026 · full quote
In order for @OpenAI and other AI companies to be held accountable to their own commitments on safety, security, governance and ethics, the public must have confidence that employees will not be retaliated against for speaking out.

Jacob Hilton · Jun 4, 2024 · full quote
Whistleblower protections and public-facing information sharing are key instruments to increase transparency.

California State Legislature · Sep 29, 2025 · full quote
The introduction of the [AI Whistleblower Protection Act] answers the call for AI industry employee whistleblower protections that will serve to protect the public, marking a turning point in guaranteeing transparency and accountability over AI companies.

Stephen M. Kohn · 2025 · full quote

Closing legal gaps

A major pro argument is that current whistleblower laws do not clearly or adequately cover AI employees, often focusing on outright illegal conduct rather than concerning practices inside AI firms. On this view, AI-specific legislation is needed to make protections clear and give industry insiders meaningful coverage.

AI whistleblowing is largely unprotected by existing whistleblower laws, which focus on outright illegal activity. Chair Grassley’s AI Whistleblower Protection Act would be a significant improvement on this status quo.

Helen Toner · Apr 22, 2026 · full quote
Last month, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led a bipartisan team of policymakers to introduce the AI Whistleblower Protection Act. The bill would prohibit retaliation against workers in the AI industry who raise the alarm about failures in AI safety or security. The AI Whistleb…

Nate Karren · Jun 11, 2025 · full quote
We need to act to make these protections crystal clear. I’m proud to introduce this legislation to increase accountability and protect AI whistleblowers

Chuck Grassley · 2025 · full quote
Together, the panel shed light on how existing laws fail to protect AI whistleblowers and what must change to ensure accountability in the industry.

Jaiden Wick · Nov 16, 2025 · full quote
Sector-based whistleblower protections are desperately needed to allow insiders within the AI industry to best protect investors and ensure proper safety protocols are implemented.

Jacklyn DeMar · 2025 · full quote

Protected reporting channels

Proponents say AI workers need protection from retaliation or employment discrimination, along with anonymous or confidential channels to report safety, security, misuse, civil-liberties, or legal concerns to regulators or policymakers. They argue that safe reporting pathways are necessary so insiders can raise alarms before harms escalate.

Establish whistleblower protections drawn from the NSM on AI, ensuring personnel can report AI misuse, civil liberties concerns, and safety violations without fear of reprisal, with anonymous and confidential reporting procedures.

Adam Schiff · Jun 8, 2026 · full quote
The law also creates confidential reporting channels and whistleblower protections for employees raising AI safety concerns.

Office of the Governor of Illinois · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Congress could pass legislation to prohibit employment discrimination against whistleblowers reporting AI security vulnerabilities. Some security researchers at frontier AI companies complain that they are discouraged from informing policymakers about major security vulnerabiliti…

Yusuf Mahmood · Apr 16, 2026 · full quote
The bill, backed by Senators Klobuchar and Blackburn and Representatives Obernolte and Lieu, would protect AI workers from retaliation when reporting risks to federal regulators.

Kristin Woelfel · Jun 11, 2025 · full quote
An employer may not take retaliatory action against an employee for disclosing or threatening to disclose in good faith any violation of the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act.

Illinois General Assembly · May 22, 2026 · full quote

Early warning on risks

Supporters contend that AI risks can be hard to predict and may first be visible only to insiders, making whistleblowers an important early-warning system. In the absence of broader transparency or regulation, they describe protected insiders as a last resort for surfacing emerging or catastrophic risks in time to mitigate them.

[...] we can't predict when catastrophic risks will occur. There are warning signs. [...] This bill's reporting requirements and whistleblower protections will provide the information we need [...].

Steve Newman · Jul 16, 2025 · full quote
Strong legal protections are a cornerstone of whistleblowing. This matters especially in frontier AI, where the exact shape and form of risk arising may be difficult to predict. Regulators and the public should hence have a strong interest in empowering those who are able to sp…

AI Whistleblower Initiative · full quote
It’s gone OK. It’s not the main thing we’re working on. Mostly we’ve been working on research, forecasting, et cetera. But it does seem like there’s a decent amount of demand for better whistleblower protections. I think that people are starting to recognise that it’s like our l…

Daniel Kokotajlo · 2025 · full quote
On the whistleblower protections. I think this is really important [...]. [...] we want to know before [...]. [...] we can start to mitigate it [...].

Rebecca Bauer-Kahan · 2025 · full quote
As AI systems grow more powerful and autonomous, we must shield those who sound the alarm about emerging risks.

Sunny Gandhi · 2025 · full quote

Baseline safety governance

Some supporters frame whistleblower protections as one standard within a broader AI safety regime that also includes audits, incident reporting, safety frameworks, and security requirements. In this view, laws should codify practices that leading labs may already follow voluntarily and set a baseline for all major developers.

Second, companies developing the most capable systems should meet clear requirements, including independent audits, incident reporting, strong security standards, and whistleblower protections.

Chris Lehane · Jul 15, 2026 · full quote
SB 315 takes the safety practices leading labs already follow voluntarily—publishing a safety framework, transparent reporting, protecting whistleblowers—and helps establish a baseline that every leading AI developer is expected to meet. [...] Illinois lawmakers have set a new st…

Cesar Fernandez · 2026 · full quote
As AI systems become more powerful and consequential, SB 53's requirements — greater transparency in safety practices and strong protections for AI whistleblowers — are critical to ensuring that safety is built into innovation from the very beginning, rather than treated as an af…

Nathan Calvin · 2025 · full quote
So the RAISE Act asks for companies to do four things. They have to have an SSP. They have to have that SSP audited by a third party, not the government. They actually have to choose their own third party that does that. They have to disclose critical safety incidents, and we def…

Alex Bores · 2025 · full quote
Importantly, the law balances [...] whistleblower protections—[...]. [...] Protecting whistleblowers: It should be an explicit violation of law [...] punish employees who raise concerns [...].

Anthropic · Dec 19, 2025 · full quote

Arguments against

Duplication and confusion

One opposing view argues that existing whistleblower laws already protect employees from retaliation, so creating a separate AI-specific regime could create confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers in highly technical and competitive fields.

Connecticut already has strong whistleblower laws that protect employees from retaliation. [...] creating a separate, AI-specific whistleblower regime could lead to confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers operating in highly technical and competitive fie…

Christopher Davis · 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Scope and confidentiality

Some supportive voices focus less on whether to protect whistleblowers than on how broad and carefully framed those protections should be. They argue protections should not be narrowed to only certain workers or narrowly defined catastrophic harms, should cover good-faith reports of substantial danger, and should not let legitimate confidentiality interests silence risk-related concerns.

finds it concerning that the scope of who can be a protected whistleblower was narrowed, thereby threatening transparency and accountability in a booming industry with already little regulatory framework. [...] believes the broadest possible scope of who can be considered a whist…

Margaux Ewen · Dec 29, 2025 · full quote
“We wanted those to be fairly broad and fairly standard,” she said. “Instead, it was winnowed down to only certain people that work in certain parts of an AI company — and only about certain kinds of threats that related specifically to catastrophic property damage or catastrophi…

Tracy Rosenberg · Dec 29, 2025 · full quote
That the company will facilitate a verifiably anonymous process for current and former employees to raise risk-related concerns to the company’s board, to regulators, and to an appropriate independent organization with relevant expertise; Companies have a legitimate interest to …

William Saunders · 2024 · full quote
It doesn’t seem at all unreasonable to suggest that AI whistleblower legislation... should similarly protect disclosures when the whistleblower believes in good faith... a “substantial and specific” potential danger.

Institute for Law & AI · full quote

Insights

Several supporters treat whistleblower protections as one part of a larger AI safety package that also includes audits, incident reporting, safety frameworks, and security standards (13675, 9807, 6354, 8759).
Multiple quotes emphasize anonymous or confidential reporting channels and the ability to report to regulators, policymakers, or government agencies, suggesting the policy design question is about reporting pathways as well as retaliation (13704, 13905, 13624, 7384).
Supportive quotes differ on scope: some want the broadest possible coverage, while others discuss good-faith thresholds, narrow definitions of catastrophic harm, or legitimate confidentiality interests (7396, 7397, 7363, 7335).
The main opposing view does not reject whistleblower protection in general; it questions whether a separate AI-specific regime is necessary when existing laws may already protect employees (9771).
The pro case draws support from elected officials, company representatives, former lab employees, researchers, nonprofits, and whistleblower advocates, indicating a broad mix of institutions in favor of stronger protections (13675, 13704, 7362, 13698, 7316).

Across the provided quotes, support is framed around closing perceived gaps in current law, giving insiders safe ways to report safety and security concerns, and strengthening transparency within broader AI governance systems (13604, 13704, 13675, 7399). The main contrary argument is narrower: where existing retaliation laws are already strong, an AI-specific whistleblower regime could create confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers in technical, competitive fields (9771).

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Chris Lehane
OpenAI chief global affairs officer

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Second, companies developing the most capable systems should meet clear requirements, including independent audits, incident reporting, strong security standards, and whistleblower protections.
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State of Illinois
U.S. state government; publisher of official announcements on Illinois artificial intelligence law and policy.

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The Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act establishes a framework requiring developers of the largest advanced AI systems to publicly disclose safety practices, report significant safety incidents, and maintain robust compliance processes. The ...
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The law also creates confidential reporting channels and whistleblower protections for employees raising AI safety concerns.
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Abra Ganz
Head of AI Policy at Pour Demain and researcher on AI oversight and whistleblower protections.

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Whistleblower protections are a critical mechanism for surfacing risks and have existed across many US states and the federal level for decades – albeit with strongly varying degrees of effectiveness.
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Future of Life Institute
Nonprofit on existential risks

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Strengthen whistleblower protections and align culture with policy.
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Justin Smulison
Journalist and writer for the National Whistleblower Center covering AI whistleblower policy.

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The AIWPA is rooted in a simple but urgent principle: as technology becomes more powerful, the people who raise concerns about it must be protected.
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National Whistleblower Center
Whistleblower advocacy nonprofit

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As AI becomes more embedded in modern culture and global infrastructure, the need for accountability has become increasingly necessary. That is why the passage of the AI Whistleblower Protection Act (AIWPA) is one of the National Whistleblower Center...
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Adam Schiff
U.S. Senator from California; former House Intelligence Committee chair

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Establish whistleblower protections drawn from the NSM on AI, ensuring personnel can report AI misuse, civil liberties concerns, and safety violations without fear of reprisal, with anonymous and confidential reporting procedures.
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Daniel Didech
Illinois State Representative (Democrat); lead House sponsor of SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act

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Additionally, this bill includes strong whistleblower protections for employees who raise safety concerns and independent third-party audits to verify compliance.
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Illinois General Assembly
State legislature of Illinois, United States.

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An employer may not take retaliatory action against an employee for disclosing or threatening to disclose in good faith any violation of the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act.
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Mary Edly-Allen
Illinois State Senator (D-Libertyville); lead sponsor of SB 315, a frontier AI safety and transparency bill requiring independent third-party audits of major AI developers

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Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly and is like the ‘Wild Wild West’ with little to no guardrails in place. This bill balances the great promise of AI with its possible peril.
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United States Congress
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Subtitle C—AI Whistleblower Protection. SEC. 521. Definitions. SEC. 522. Anti-retaliation protection for AI whistleblowers.
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Helen Toner
Interim Executive Director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); former OpenAI board member

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If AI companies want to claim that they are building the most world-changing technology to ever exist, their employees should be able to share concerns about risks to public safety along the way without fearing the repercussions. AI whistleblowing is...
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Daniel Toner
Senior Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, providing expert testimony on frontier AI safety and governance.

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Pass the AI Whistleblower Protection Act and seek other ways to use existing authorities to promote transparency from frontier AI companies about their most advanced systems. Chair Grassley’s Whistleblower Protection Act would significantly improve A...
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Yusuf Mahmood
Director of AI and Emerging Technology Policy at America First Policy Institute.

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Congress could pass legislation to prohibit employment discrimination against whistleblowers reporting AI security vulnerabilities. Some security researchers at frontier AI companies complain that they are discouraged from informing policymakers abou...
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Robi Rahman
AI governance writer, MIRI TGT

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Whistleblowers: the treaty provides incentives and safe harbor for researchers who report illegal, secret operations.
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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
International law firm publishing legal analysis on AI governance and whistleblower protections.

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Companies should consider strengthening AI governance, substantiating AI-related claims, training personnel on whistleblower protections, and ensuring rapid, well-documented internal investigations to mitigate escalation risk and position themselves ...
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America First Policy Institute
U.S. public-policy think tank.

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Congress should pass legislation that protects whistleblowers in the AI industry.
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Mary Inman
Whistleblower attorney with 30+ years experience; founding board member of Psst nonprofit providing secure digital safe and legal support for AI whistleblowers

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The confidentiality agreements often contain gagging language that violates an SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] law that says you can’t interfere with a whistleblower’s ability to report to external regulators.
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Sonia Katyal
Law professor and scholar of civil rights, technology, and artificial intelligence.

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Towards this end, I discuss a variety of tools to help eliminate the opacity of AI, including codes of conduct, impact statements, and whistleblower protection, which I argue carries the potential to encourage greater endogeneity in civil rights enfo...
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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This policy protects employees’ rights to raise issues, including about AI safety, applicable laws, or company policies.
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SB 315 takes the safety practices leading labs already follow voluntarily—publishing a safety framework, transparent reporting, protecting whistleblowers—and helps establish a baseline that every leading AI developer is expected to meet. [...] Illino...
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Oakland Privacy advocacy director

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“We wanted those to be fairly broad and fairly standard,” she said. “Instead, it was winnowed down to only certain people that work in certain parts of an AI company — and only about certain kinds of threats that related specifically to catastrophic ...
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Margaux Ewen
Whistleblower Protection Program Director

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finds it concerning that the scope of who can be a protected whistleblower was narrowed, thereby threatening transparency and accountability in a booming industry with already little regulatory framework. [...] believes the broadest possible scope of...
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AI safety research company

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Importantly, the law balances [...] whistleblower protections—[...]. [...] Protecting whistleblowers: It should be an explicit violation of law [...] punish employees who raise concerns [...].
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SB 53 establishes new requirements for frontier AI developers creating stronger: ✅ Transparency: Requires large frontier developers to publicly publish a framework on its website describing how the company has incorporated national standards, intern...
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Whistleblower protections and public-facing information sharing are key instruments to increase transparency.
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software entrepreneur

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[...] we can't predict when catastrophic risks will occur. There are warning signs. [...] This bill's reporting requirements and whistleblower protections will provide the information we need [...].
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Policy Counsel, Equity in Civic Technology

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The bill, backed by Senators Klobuchar and Blackburn and Representatives Obernolte and Lieu, would protect AI workers from retaliation when reporting risks to federal regulators.
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Nate Karren
Policy analyst, American Consumer Institute

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Last month, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led a bipartisan team of policymakers to introduce the AI Whistleblower Protection Act. The bill would prohibit retaliation against workers in the AI industry who raise the alarm about failures in AI safety...
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Chris MacKenzie
Vice President of Communications

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The letter endorses the AI Whistleblower Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would protect those working to develop and deploy AI systems from retaliation when they warn federal regulators about AI risks.
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Adela Prifti
Whistleblower nonprofit communications lead

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The Signals Network [...] endorsing the AI Whistleblower Protection Act [...] protecting individuals who report risks or wrongdoing related to artificial intelligence (AI).
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Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
California State Assembly member

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On the whistleblower protections. I think this is really important [...]. [...] we want to know before [...]. [...] we can start to mitigate it [...].
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Brian Schatz
U.S. Senator (D–Hawaii)

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This bill protects whistleblowers from employer retaliation... report on significant dangers, security failures, or breaches of the law.
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Sophie Luskin
Princeton CITP AI policy researcher

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With a wave of deregulation... whistleblower protections may well become even more crucial in holding the AI industry accountable.
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Chuck Grassley
U.S. Senator from Iowa

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We need to act to make these protections crystal clear. I’m proud to introduce this legislation to increase accountability and protect AI whistleblowers
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Dana Gold.
Government Accountability Project whistleblower attorney.

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"I fear it will take a catastrophe to drive both greater oversight and stronger whistleblower protections for tech-sector whistleblowers," said Dana Gold, senior counsel and director of advocacy and strategy at the Government Accountability Project, ...
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Jacob Hilton
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In order for @OpenAI and other AI companies to be held accountable to their own commitments on safety, security, governance and ethics, the public must have confidence that employees will not be retaliated against for speaking out.
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William Saunders
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That the company will facilitate a verifiably anonymous process for current and former employees to raise risk-related concerns to the company’s board, to regulators, and to an appropriate independent organization with relevant expertise; Companies ...
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Lawrence Lessig
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At its core, SB1047 does one small but incredibly important thing: It requires that those developing the most advanced AI models adopt and follow safety protocols—including shutdown protocols—to reduce any risk that their models are stolen or deploye...
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Center for AI Policy
AI policy nonprofit organization

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We offer warm and detailed endorsements of bills [...] Sen. Grassley (R-Iowa)’s AI Whistleblower Protection Act
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AI Whistleblower Initiative
AI whistleblower rights nonprofit

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Strong legal protections are a cornerstone of whistleblowing. This matters especially in frontier AI, where the exact shape and form of risk arising may be difficult to predict. Regulators and the public should hence have a strong interest in empow...
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Jaiden Wick
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Together, the panel shed light on how existing laws fail to protect AI whistleblowers and what must change to ensure accountability in the industry.
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Nathan Calvin
Encode AI general counsel

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the whistleblower protections in this Bill are critically important [...]. SB 53 would ensure [...] protected from retaliation. This crucial measure will help keep Californians safe.
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Jacklyn DeMar
Anti-Fraud Coalition CEO

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Sector-based whistleblower protections are desperately needed to allow insiders within the AI industry to best protect investors and ensure proper safety protocols are implemented.
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Stephen M. Kohn
Whistleblower-rights attorney

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The introduction of the [AI Whistleblower Protection Act] answers the call for AI industry employee whistleblower protections that will serve to protect the public, marking a turning point in guaranteeing transparency and accountability over AI compa...
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Scott Wiener
California state senator

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[...] the bill also provides critical protections to workers who need to sound the alarm if something goes wrong in developing these highly advanced systems,
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Sunny Gandhi
Encode AI political affairs VP

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As AI systems grow more powerful and autonomous, we must shield those who sound the alarm about emerging risks.
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Mrinank Sharma
Former head of Anthropic's Safeguards Research Team; AI safety researcher with a PhD in machine learning from Oxford

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Throughout my time here, I've repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions. I've seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most, and throughout broader ...
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U.S. House of Representatives
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To prohibit employment discrimination against whistleblowers reporting AI security vulnerabilities or AI violations, and for other purposes.
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Daniel Kokotajlo
AI Futures Project founder

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It’s gone OK. It’s not the main thing we’re working on. Mostly we’ve been working on research, forecasting, et cetera. But it does seem like there’s a decent amount of demand for better whistleblower protections. I think that people are starting to ...
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Alex Bores
New York State Assemblymember

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So the RAISE Act asks for companies to do four things. They have to have an SSP. They have to have that SSP audited by a third party, not the government. They actually have to choose their own third party that does that. They have to disclose critica...
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Institute for Law & AI
Non-profit research institute on AI governance

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It doesn’t seem at all unreasonable to suggest that AI whistleblower legislation... should similarly protect disclosures when the whistleblower believes in good faith... a “substantial and specific” potential danger.
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Christopher Davis
Vice President of Public Policy at the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA)

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Connecticut already has strong whistleblower laws that protect employees from retaliation. [...] creating a separate, AI-specific whistleblower regime could lead to confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers operating in highly...
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Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority

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AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it

Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority

AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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