California's TFAIA and New York's RAISE Act both include whistleblower provisions for AI workers. Which better protects the people building frontier AI? Neither, categorically. It depends. Our new comparative guide breaks it down. What the guide finds: 📌 New York offers broader substantive coverage: contractors and former employees are explicitly protected, and any worker can report a "substantial and specific danger to public health or safety". 📌 California offers a more worker-friendly burden of proof: a "contributing factor" test shifts the burden to the employer to prove it would have acted the same way anyway. 📌 California bars the contractual mechanisms e.g. NDAs, pre-dispute arbitration, equity-linked offboarding that have historically kept disclosures out of view. New York does not. 📌 Both states still have gaps. Neither defines clear response obligations for authorities, and neither expressly covers equity in remedies. The guide also sets out targeted recommendations for legislators and workers in both states. Read the full guide in the comment below ⬇️ #AIWhistleblower #AIPolicy #TFAIA #RAISEAct

Our recent policy analysis with CARMA examines the AI Whistleblower Protection Act (AWPA), the first federal bill written squarely for people who raise concerns from inside AI companies. It already clears the fundamentals: a reasonable-belief standard, protection for internal reporting alongside disclosures to regulators or Congress, a burden of proof matched to existing federal whistleblower law, and remedies that include reinstatement, double back pay with interest, and a block on forced arbitration. What remains is not a matter of intent but of scope. We map five categories where the bill's current text falls short of best practice: material scope, personal scope, penalties, remedies and retaliation, and reporting channels. Closing them is what separates a law that sounds protective from one that actually insulates the people it names. Authored by: - Mark Gitau, Legal Research Fellow, CARMA - Raqda Sayidali, Research Scholar, ILINA Program & Legal Research Fellow, CARMA - Karl Koch, Founder & MD, AIWI - Abra Ganz, Senior Researcher, CARMA / Head of AI Policy, Pour Demain Full analysis: aiwi.org/publication-policy-… #AIWI #TheAIWhistleblowerInitiative #AIWhistleblower #AIPolicy #AIGovernance #AIAccountability #AIgovernance #AIsafety #AIWPA