AIWI - The AI Whistleblower Initiative
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Helping AI insiders in (anon) clarifying concerns + connections w/ specialized support. Indep. Non-profit. https://t.co/E5Ak1b1kAh
Joined November 2024
AI companies have a unique opportunity right now to show they're serious about empowering insiders to raise concerns. Here's why #PublishYourPolicies matters: https://t.co/xeqkwkrFYC
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WIRED: OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company's Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy. Four people familiar with the matter tell WIRED that OpenAI allegedly has become more guarded about publishing research that highlights the potentially negative impact that AI could
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Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
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The policy: https://t.co/o5T2zsA2xl Our first thoughts: https://t.co/03Av7G1sAt
@jamesrbuk first broke this story in @ReadTransformer: https://t.co/fdl6y4Itkt --> Read in the above also how another company reacted to our https://t.co/n2P7JPWQzu campaign, signed by +30 leading
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We are a coalition of whistleblowing-, and AI non-profits and scholars. We call on AI companies to make transparent their whistleblowing policies. Because trust is built on transparency.
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It is great to see that @AnthropicAI has published their internal whistleblowing policy*. Links in thread incl. our thoughts and why employees should not trust internal whistleblowing systems blindly. Anthropic have thereby reached "Level 1 Transparency" on whistleblowing
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Two little scoops in @jamesrbuk's piece for Transformer today on whistleblowing in AI: — An AI company sent a cease and desist letter to the @AIWI_Official for running an ad campaign informing its employees about their whistleblowing rights. — Anthropic is set to publish its
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"The heaviest responsibility falls on the wrong shoulders." SB 53 helps protect AI whistleblowers, but places the burden of reporting catastrophic risks on employees, not labs write @abra_ganz and @AIWI_Official's Karl Koch https://t.co/OkNtVZly6y
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Opinion: Abra Ganz and Karl Koch argue that whistleblower protections in SB-53 aren’t good enough on the face of it — but how the state chooses to interpret the law could turn that around
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The 21st edition of our now monthly newsletter on Substack -> AIWI: INSIDE AI is live! Read here: ⬇️ https://t.co/QvyCsfqw9Y
#AIWI #AInewsletter #WhistleblowingPolicies
#AInews #AItransparency #AIsafety
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Find here the channel: https://t.co/nyvqrY2ueg And here their FAQ:
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Expected benefits: ✓ A place for AI insiders globally to raise and validate concerns with EU AIO experts ✓ Strong intervention & deterring effect ✓ Blueprint for US regulator AI whistleblowing channels ✓ Incentive for companies to improve their internal whistleblowing
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A massive step: The EU AI Office has launched a whistleblowing channel dedicated to AI professionals—the first of its kind globally. 1/3 #whistleblowing #euaio
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Thanks @FLI_org for having us! If you're interested in AI whistleblowing, listen to this conversation between our founder and @GusDocker.
"If you feel like, 'hey, we're actually not hitting certain alignment things right now and we're using misaligned models to try and align models of the future'... probably good to speak up now." -Karl Koch, founder of the AI Whistleblower Initiative @AIWI_Official, on the latest
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At what is possibly a risk to my whole career I will say: this doesn't seem great. Lately I have been describing my role as something like a "public advocate" so I'd be remiss if I didn't share some thoughts for the public on this. Some thoughts in thread...
One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI. I held back on talking about it because I didn't want to distract from SB 53, but Newsom just signed the bill so... here's what happened: 🧵
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Good to see this proactive (partially independent) evaluation + transparency and looking forward to other frontier companies following @AnthropicAI's example here. 2 Whistleblowing (WB) nuggets we dug up from the docs: 1. Updates on Claude as a "whistleblower": Framed in
🌱⚠️ weeds-ey but important milestone ⚠️🌱 This is a first concrete example of the kind of analysis, reporting, and accountability that we’re aiming for as part of our Responsible Scaling Policy commitments on misalignment.
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I worked so, so hard on this piece: It's about OpenAI bringing back erotica, what's been going on with users' mental health, and how it all relates to making AI go well.
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Psst, if you were laid off and want to speak about what you’ve seen behind the scenes at Meta, we can help. We’ve helped lots of workers with free legal advice/support if they’re concerned about something in their current or former workplace. You don’t need to “go public.”
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Why did OpenAI subpoena me? Encode has criticized OpenAI’s restructuring and worked on AI regulations, including SB 53. I believe OpenAI used the pretext of their lawsuit against Elon Musk to intimidate their critics and imply that Elon is behind all of them. 3/15
🚨 Breaking: A group of 100+ Nobel laureates, professors, whistleblowers, public figures, artists, and nonprofit organizations just released a letter asking OpenAI to tell the truth about its restructuring. Here’s what they had to say: 🧵
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One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI. I held back on talking about it because I didn't want to distract from SB 53, but Newsom just signed the bill so... here's what happened: 🧵
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The 20th edition of our bi-weekly newsletter on Substack -> AIWI: INSIDE AI is live! Read here: ⬇️ https://t.co/ljPLheGbDK
#AIWI #AInewsletter #WhistleblowingPolicies #AInews #AItransparency #AIsafety #PublishYourPolicies
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Read the story written by @psst_org, representing their client #Whatsappwhistleblower: "A WhatsApp Whistleblower has entered the group chat" He reports Meta ignored huge security holes in the world’s biggest messaging app. https://t.co/k8jfwApfcF
#AIWI #INSIDEAI
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#WhatsAppwhistleblower #AttaullahBaig served as Head of Security for WhatsApp & once described his role as his 'dream job'. He witnessed real-life security risks affecting nearly 3 billion users - now suing Meta. 🔗Read here: https://t.co/a2M0kg1DnP
#Metawhistleblower #AIWI
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