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Q So are you advocating for both a new regulatory agency and a rule to protect AI whistleblowers? What are you going to try to get at here?

A Well, my own view, and I won't speak for the, uh, my clients here, my own view is, um, yeah, absolutely. There needs to be a regulatory agency that is overseeing this. I'm not sure what the structure of it is. It's kind of academic to talk about it, given the dysfunction of the federal government right now, but yes, I, other countries are building things like this and we ought to be doing the same. Um, um, and if there were such an agency, it itself would have lots of whistleblower protections built in and that would Maybe obviate a significant chunk of the need for the rule. But the rule that we're talking about is a rule that initially we're trying to get, um, companies to embrace. Um, you know, I think the most interesting part of the whistleblower, the right to warn is the third point where it talks about creating a culture of criticism where the company says, look, we want you to criticize us. We want you to tell us what's going wrong. Um, we want to encourage that. We're not going to punish that because that's the way We become the safest kind of company that we can be. Uh, and so that's really about create, uh, the company itself creating that. And then the other part that I think is really critical is that the company says, we agree. If we create, we'll, we'll create this, uh, structure that says you can complain to us and to a regulator and to an independent, uh, AI Uh…

AI assessment note: “yeah, absolutely. There needs to be a regulatory agency that is overseeing this.”

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Q voicing our concerns. So we're going to get into those agreements in a bit with Larry, but you obviously signed the agreement. You're here talking today. The main question I think the public has from you and the people who have signed this letter is, did you see something? Like, did you see something concerning enough inside the company to merit speaking out here? And if so, what was it?

A Well, I, I want to actually make sure that we're clear about what we're going to talk about here. So, um, it's perfectly fine to say whether there was something was seen, but the reason for the letter is that answering the second part of your question, what exactly did you see? Uh, is very difficult because to the extent what you did see is within the scope of a confidentiality agreement, that's the very concern that the right to warn is trying to address. So, I mean, obviously when we've talked in, uh, is quite competent to make this kind of distinction, but I want to make sure that we're not trying to walking down a path that's going to actually trigger the kind of concern that the letter was trying to respond to.

AI assessment note: “answering the second part of your question, what exactly did you see? Uh, is very difficult”

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