{"id":92267,"date":"2024-07-16T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=92267"},"modified":"2024-07-16T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:07:08","slug":"openai-illegally-barred-staff-from-airing-safety-risks-whistleblowers-say-verma-zakrzewski-tiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/07\/16\/openai-illegally-barred-staff-from-airing-safety-risks-whistleblowers-say-verma-zakrzewski-tiku\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say [Verma, Zakrzewski, &#038; Tiku]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/07\/13\/openai-safety-risks-whistleblower-sec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Pranshu Verma, Cat Zakrzewski, and Nitasha Tiku<br \/>\n<em>In a letter exclusively obtained by <\/em>The Washington Post<em>, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company\u2019s allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the artificial intelligence company illegally prohibited its employees from\u00a0warning\u00a0regulators about the grave risks its technology may pose to humanity, calling for an investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The whistleblowers said OpenAI issued its employees overly restrictive employment, severance and nondisclosure agreements that could have led to penalties against workers who raised concerns about OpenAI to federal regulators,\u00a0according to a seven-page letter\u00a0sent to the SEC commissioner earlier this month that referred to the formal complaint. The letter was obtained exclusively by <em>The Washington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Pranshu Verma, Cat Zakrzewski, and Nitasha Tiku In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company\u2019s allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,112,285,869,309,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-corporate-business-world","category-legislation-legislatures","category-open-ai","category-platforms","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92271,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92267\/revisions\/92271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}