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The concern that many people inside the industry have is that when they recognize there's a risk and they recognize there's no effective regulator out there who's going to do anything about it, they at least need the opportunity to say something.

It's the Law Fair Podcast. I'm Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell fellow at Law Fair, with Larryig Roy L. Furman professor of law and

leadership at the Harvard Law School. If they said look we want to encourage

a culture of criticism not because we think we're wrong, but because we're confident we'll be right

if there is a culture of criticism that keeps us honest.

I would think companies would benefit enormously. Today we're talking about the right to warn,

a recently proposed idea by AI employees

currently and formally employed

by some of the leading AI labs.

Let's set the stage and you'll need to hang with me because it is an elaborate stage.

So just a few weeks ago the open AI team tasked with making sure

AI systems aligned with societal interests and followed human intent dissolved.

It was then made public that Open AI had employee agreements in place that they would not

disparage the company. Word also spread that the company had threatened to cancel employees

vested equity if they didn't adhere to these agreements.

Then on June 4th a group of current and former employees at leading AI companies such as

Open AI and Google Deepmind issued an open letter calling for

a right to warn about risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence.

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