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Lawrence "Larry" Lessig

Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-founded Creative Commons and Equal Citizens, becoming a prominent scholar in internet governance, copyright reform, and institutional corruption. He has authored influential books including Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and increasingly focuses on ethics and whistleblower protection in artificial intelligence.

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1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Lawrence argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Lessig: Failing to Follow Stated AI Safety Regimes Is Reportable to SEC
“Some agencies like the SEC takes the view that most anything could potentially be the sort of thing you'd have privilege to complain to the SEC about because it could potentially affect the value of the company. And to the extent it's potentially affecting the…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 25:09 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lessig: Ex-OpenAI Staff Remained Silent Fearing Equity Clawbacks
“I mean, I've spoken to ex-employees who've said, look, I've not done X, Y, and Z because I feared the club acts. So they can say, and they never enforced it. They didn't need to enforce it to have the effect, which it had for a significant number of people”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 23:35 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Assertion Partly supported
Lessig: California Law Treats Vested Equity as Unconditional Wages
“Equity Is wage in the state of California. If you earn equity, your vested equity, it's like your wages. And when you leave, they can't say, oh, here's a bunch of other additional agree terms you must agree to in order to take what you've already earned. So th…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 21:51 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Assertion Supported
Lessig: Failing to Follow Stated AI Safety Regimes Is Reportable to SEC
“Some agencies like the SEC takes the view that most anything could potentially be the sort of thing you'd have privilege to complain to the SEC about because it could potentially affect the value of the company. And to the extent it's potentially affecting the…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 25:09 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Jul 2024
Lessig: 'Right to Warn' only allows public disclosure if reporting channels fail
“The right to warn we were talking about actually talked about creating an incentive so that no confidential information would be released to the public. If they had this structure, you know, imagine a portal again, where you can connect with the company and wi…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 40:36 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Opinion
Lessig: Federal AI whistleblower framework requires new legislation, not just FTC authority
“I mean, you know, agencies like the FTC believe they have lots of inherent jurisdiction that they could set up something that would be close to this, but the kind of thing that would convince people like William would require legislation the way California has…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 32:48 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessig: Adopting 'Right to Warn' will give AI labs a talent advantage
“If a company were to embrace the right to warn the way we've discussed it there would be a lot of people like William or others who would say, that's the kind of company I want to work for. And so that company would achieve an advantage of talent that might, y…”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 43:54 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Insight
Lessig: Building a reliable regulatory infrastructure takes 10 years
“It's not that I'm worried that in three to five years everything's gonna blow up. It's just that I'm Convinced that it takes 10 years to get to a place that we have an infrastructure of regulation that we can count on.”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 52:05 What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About Jul 3, 2024 15m
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