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"Readings"

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Is Anybody in Charge?

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Catalog examples you can find of brakes and kill switches in everyday life. "Safe word" in relationships or role-play, timeout in sports or conflict, mutual check-ins in group projects, parental override (“because I said so” in crisis), Emergency stop buttons on escalators, factory lines, or treadmills, “Stop work” authority on construction sites or labs, HR complaint channels / ombudsman, recall powers in governance, Hospital “code blue” teams – Stop all regular activity and redirect full institutional attention to a critical misalignment (a dying patient), licensure suspension / malpractice flags, Editorial kill switches in publishing, Judicial injunctions, Airplane autopilot disengage, “Are you sure?” prompts before deletion / data submission, Power button / battery pull, Rate limiting on APIs or social media posts.
How should whistleblowing and muckraking be regulated?  Examples of when you have been sandboxed?  (relationship to safe exploration)

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Resources

CCSNWI Facilitating Interdisciplinary Meetings: A Practical Guide

Excerpts from Robert Ellickson – Order Without Law social norms and informal enforcement maintain alignment (whistleblowing, community sanctions)

FHI, etc. 2018 The Malicious Use  of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention,  and Mitigation Maybe a general reference?  Some useful material in recommendations sections but could be too out there for this class. Chapter 04 Interventions ( high-level recommendations and priority areas for further research)

Camila Domonoske 2020 Uber Whistleblower Takes On Silicon Valley, Armed With Stoic Philosophy NPR piece about Susan Fowler book Whistle Blower

Jenna McLaughlin 2025 A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data NPR 7 minute listen

Baker McKenzie 2023. The EU Whistleblower Directive: One Year On

Hunt and Ferrario 2022 A Review of How Whistleblowing is Studied in Software Engineering, and the Implications for Research and Practice 11pp

Facebook Files. Wikipedia. Wall Street Journal. NPR

The Watchdog That Didn't Bark | Dean Starkman - April 16, 2014 An hour-long video you can start at 8:02 or 10:28.

Hadfield-Menell, Dragan, Abbeel, Russell 2016 The Off-Switch Game