AI Employees Should Have a “Right To Warn” About Looming Trouble

Reasonable rules allowing employees at AI research houses to warn about impending problems are sensible given the technology’s increasing power.

By now, we’re starting to understand why so many OpenAI safety employees left in recent months. It’s not due to some secret, unsafe breakthrough (so we can put “what did Ilya see?” to rest). Rather, it’s process oriented, stemming from an unease that the company, as it operates today, might overlook future dangers.

After a long period of silence, the quo…