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Senator calls grow for OpenAI to prove it’s not silencing staff

Bipartisan pressure in Congress emerges for OpenAI to prove it is developing its AI safely.

In a July letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, OpenAI whistleblowers said they had filed a complaint with the agency alleging the company illegally issued restrictive severance, nondisclosure and employee agreements, potentially penalizing workers who wished to raise concerns to federal regulators. “OpenAI’s whistleblower policy protects employees’ rights to raise issues including to any national, federal, state, or local government agency,” Bourgeois said in response to Grassley’s letter. Grassley also cited The Post’s reporting in July, where an OpenAI representative said it had “squeezed” its safety testing of GPT-4 Omni into a week, as evidence of why employees must be able to raise issues freely to federal regulators.

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