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I looked [1] at all the prominent whistleblowers in the last ~50 years, and while some people have been seriously harassed and felt their lives were in danger, there's only a single case where someone was plausibly murdered by a private company. (Governments murder whistleblowers all the time.)

Interestingly, it was in the 1970's and the woman blew the whistle for safety practices around the handling of plutonium!

[1] https://twitter.com/dschwarz26/status/1786133630474977785



Do you mean that you did the research, or your AI product did the research? How are you assessing whether a death was plausibly murder? So strange that the one example you find is of a car crash (one of the most common ways people die!) and no citation that it was found to be murder.


Don't misrepresent this - you used your own AI-powered product to do "research"

> So across the ~50 or so prominent whistleblower cases against big co's that I researched with futuresearch.ai, retaliation is common, harassment is rare but does happen, but murder is not. And given the details of Joshua Dean and John Barnett's death, it's simply much too plausible that this is a fluke of timing.


There's a really good movie about it too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood


Thanks for taking the time to tackle this research.

I think you should mention that „I looked” was done with help of your AI project. That does not spark much confidence given current state of LLMs and their „research”.

From your twitter article:

> So across the ~50 or so prominent whistleblower cases against big co's that I researched with futuresearch.ai, retaliation is common, harassment is rare but does happen, but murder is not.


>I looked [1]...

Your AI looked at it, you didn't. I also have the hunch that your research was limited to US whistleblowers only, can you confirm?




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