Google researchers are fighting the company to tell the world what they know about AI — from washingtonpost.com by Gerrit De Vynck
Employment contracts deter staff from warning the public about AI risks, current workers said.
Workers inside Google’s artificial intelligence division are pushing executives to release them from non-disparagement agreements, arguing that they must be free to inform the public about the risks of the technology they are working to advance, according to people inside the company.
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The non-disparagement agreements signed by employees in Britain block them from communicating with the public about the potential impacts of AI, the two current Google workers said. While company officials are now saying that they will not go after former employees who speak out, some staffers are pushing for updated language in existing contracts to provide them with legal certainty.