OpenAI Employee Nondisclosure Agreements Questioned by Grassley

A top Senate Republican is turning up the heat on OpenAI Inc., asking how the company’s nondisclosure agreements might be keeping employees who have concerns about its technology from speaking out to government regulators.

“I am concerned these agreements may be stifling your employees from making protected disclosures to government regulators,” Sen Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a Aug. 1 letter to Sam Altman, the chief executive officer of OpenAI, the company behind artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT. “For over a decade, I’ve sounded the alarm about restrictive NDAs that hinder oversight and improperly silence employees from making protected ...