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The speaker advocates making it legally permissible for whistleblowers to tell the government that a secret intelligence explosion is dangerous, independently of whether a law protects them from retaliation.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“And so like one of the things that I would advocate for with whistleblower protections is just like simply making it legal to go talk to”
“the government and say.”
“say we're doing a secret intelligence explosion i think it's dangerous for these reasons is better than nothing like i think there's going to be like some fraction of people who for which that would make the difference like whether it's just literally allowed or not legally makes a difference independently of whether there's some law that says you're protected from retaliation or whatever just like literally just making it legal um yeah i think that's one thing”Play from 2:34:23Report a misattribution
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