WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined the “start point” and shared details about the AI whistleblower protection law.
The law provides explicit whistleblower protection to those who develop and deploy artificial intelligence (AI). Currently, restrictive retirement and private agreements (NDAs) for some AI companies have created a calm effect on current and former employees seeking to disclose whistleblower blowers to the federal government, including Congress.
A video and excerpt of Grassley’s comments follow.
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Regarding the importance of whistleblowers:
“Every whistleblower is, most often, in the government I deal with, sometimes in the private sector. People who know something are incorrect (a) can violate the law. DO: Follow the law (and).
Regarding the need for AI-specific whistleblower protection:
“I’ve been getting (AI) whistleblowers to me and say things aren’t right. They want to expose it… That’s why we need laws to protect whistleblowers within the AI community, just like government and private sector locations…
“My bill explicitly protects communications of current and former AI employees who have disclosed legally protected disclosures to Congress, federal agencies, or supervisors. Over time, AI appears to be growing.
About the suspicious non-disclosure agreement:
A non-confidential statement saying “(You can’t talk about these” prohibits and suppresses those who know that coming to Congress is wrong. It violates free speech (and) it’s a way to hide what’s wrong.
About the Free Market System:
“I believe in a free enterprise system, and of course I will support professional business, professional growth policies. I don’t think that the whistleblower protection interest is violating it, as the government is justly a judge within a free enterprise system. Therefore, all of this law does not prevent us from ensuring that it is preventing us from observing non-disclosure agreements. We can speak without retaliation before more harm is done to the public.
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