WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “A Starting Point” to share details about his AI Whistleblower Protection Act.
The legislation provides explicit whistleblower protections to those developing and deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI). Currently, some AI companies’ restrictive severance and nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) create a chilling effect on current and former employees looking to make whistleblower disclosures to the federal government, including Congress.
Video and excerpts of Grassley’s remarks follow.
On the Importance of Whistleblowers:
“A whistleblower can be anybody, most often in government that I deal with, but sometimes in the private sector. People that know something isn't right, [that a] law might be violated. People might be stealing taxpayers’ money [or] taxes aren't being paid, whatever the case might be. They think it's not right. They may not even think of themselves as a whistleblower. I think of them as just patriotic Americans that want the government to do what the government's supposed to do: obey the laws [and] spend the taxpayers’ money the way Congress intended.”
On the Need for AI-Specific Whistleblower Protections:
“I’ve had [AI] whistleblowers come to me and say that things aren’t right. They want to expose it … That's why we need laws that would protect whistleblowers within the AI community, as we would any place in government or in the private sector …
“My bill will explicitly...
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