Hacker News with Generative AI: Whistleblowers

Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue (electrek.co)
Former Tesla engineer Christina Balan, who was fired in 2014, said in an interview that her entire team was threatened with deportation for taking her side when she brought up a brake safety issue directly to Elon Musk.

Tesla, Whistleblowers, Elon Musk, Automotive Industry, Lawsuits

27 points by iancmceachern 5 days ago | 1 comments

Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests (thehill.com)
Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, which is now called Meta, testified at a Senate hearing Wednesday that she saw Meta executives “repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values” during her seven-year stint in that job.

Meta, National Security, Whistleblowers, Government, Social Media

409 points by c420 17 days ago | 129 comments

Boeing blamed for whistleblower's death in new lawsuit (seattletimes.com)
The family of John “Mitch” Barnett, a Boeing whistleblower whose death last year brought fresh attention to the company’s persistent struggles with quality, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston, S.C., blaming the aerospace company for Barnett’s suicide.

Lawsuits, Boeing, Whistleblowers, Aviation

13 points by iancmceachern 37 days ago | 0 comments

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book (cnbc.com)

Meta, Whistleblowers, Lawsuits, Social Media

96 points by SirLJ 44 days ago | 2 comments

An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment (fortune.com)
A few months before his death, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji spoke out against his former employer, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Whistleblowers, Death

38 points by trymas 76 days ago | 2 comments

Interview with Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower (youtube.com)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Interviews, Whistleblowers

14 points by ruffrey 100 days ago | 0 comments

OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say (washingtonpost.com)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Safety, Whistleblowers, Legal Issues

159 points by helsinkiandrew 284 days ago | 177 comments

OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs (reuters.com)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Law, Whistleblowers

80 points by JumpCrisscross 286 days ago | 16 comments

Whistleblowers accuse OpenAI of 'illegally restrictive' NDAs (techcrunch.com)