NJ SR52

New Jersey Senate resolution urges generative AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Midjourney, Inflection, and Cohere to voluntarily adopt employee whistleblower protections

Calls on companies to not enforce agreements prohibiting criticism of risk-related concerns and to avoid retaliating against employees by withholding vested economic benefits

Requests companies establish anonymous processes for current and former employees to report AI-related risks to company boards, regulators, and independent expert organizations

Urges provision of both legal and technical safe harbor for good-faith independent safety evaluations, protecting researchers from lawsuits, account suspensions, and terminations

Employees would retain freedom to publicly report concerns if internal processes fail, while avoiding unnecessary disclosure of trade secrets and intellectual property