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By Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology

Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn

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Published June 07, 2024 4:03pm

This week, a group of current and former employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind penned an open letter accusing the industry’s leading companies of prioritizing profits over safety. This comes after a spate of high profile departures from OpenAI, including co-founder Ilya Sutskever and senior researcher Jan Leike, as well as reports that OpenAI has gone to great lengths to silence would-be whistleblowers. 

The writers of the open letter argue that researchers have a “right to warn” the public about AI risks and laid out a series of principles that would protect that right. In this episode...

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