AI Whistleblower Initiative

AIWI and CARMA published a detailed policy analysis on the proposed AI Whistleblower Protection Act (S.1792/H.R.3460), including a set of suggested amendments across categories such as material scope, personal scope, remedies, and reporting channels.

AIWI and CARMA published a best-practice guide intended to close gaps in existing whistleblower protections for frontier AI insiders, benchmarking against standards and introducing AI-specific recommendations.

AIWI published a commentary/opinion piece (co-authored by AIWI founder Karl Koch and Abra Ganz of CARMA) arguing that SB 53’s whistleblower protections impose too-heavy burdens on individuals in practice, drawing on AIWI research/survey results.

AIWI’s press post says that The Information covered OpenAI’s updated whistleblower policy and that AIWI founder Karl Koch met with an OpenAI executive to discuss AIWI’s policy recommendations while AIWI released related evaluation work.

AIWI’s press post says Transformer covered whistleblowing in the AI industry ahead of Anthropic’s policy release, including quotes from AIWI founder Karl Koch and references to AIWI’s behind-the-scenes lobbying and campaign-related interactions.

AIWI announced a new resource for EU AI whistleblowers co-authored by an EU Fellow and AIWI founder Karl Koch, framing whistleblowing under the EU AI Act.

AIWI’s site links to a preliminary assessment/evaluation of OpenAI’s updated raising concerns policy, positioned as part of AIWI’s ongoing policy evaluation work.