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This resolution urges generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies to voluntarily adopt six key principles to protect employee whistleblowers and promote transparency about potential risks in AI technology. The principles include: prohibiting agreements that prevent employees from criticizing the company for risk-related concerns, creating an anonymous process for employees to raise safety concerns to company boards and regulators, supporting a culture of open criticism that allows employees to discuss technological risks publicly while protecting intellectual property, providing legal and technical "safe harbor" for good faith system evaluations without fear of retaliation, preventing retaliation against employees who share confidential risk-related information after other reporting channels have failed, and ensuring employees can report concerns until an appropriate anonymous reporting mechanism is established. The resolution acknowledges the significant potential risks of AI technology, including the entrenchment of existing inequalities and the spread of misinformation, and recognizes that employees are often best positioned to identify and disclose potential systemic risks. The document specifically calls for transmitting the resolution to leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others, encouraging them to voluntarily implement these whistleblower protection principles.

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https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/AR158