A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Current and former employees of frontier AI labs · June 2024
Open letterPrompted public commitments from some labs to review restrictive agreements; enforcement remains internal.
The letter that broke the silence inside the labs: employees demanding the right to warn the public without losing their livelihoods.
What it calls for
- Protection for whistleblowers at AI companies
- An end to non disparagement agreements covering safety concerns
- Anonymous reporting channels and a culture of open criticism
Scope
Signed by current and former staff of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic, plus leading researchers
What actually happened
OpenAI said it would stop clawing back equity from departing employees over non-disparagement clauses.