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More Than 100 AI Experts Sign a Letter Saying that OpenAI & Anthropic Need Independent AI Safety Evaluators
More than 100 researchers and evaluators seek employee-level access, public reporting, and protections against retaliation for independent AI safety testing.
- On Friday, over 100 AI researchers and evaluators published a letter demanding 'minimum conditions' for third-party safety oversight, warning that current arrangements lack the independence and resources needed to credibly assess risks from frontier AI models.
- This push follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to provide evaluators 'employee-like access' to inspect frontier models; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly backed the concept, though logistical questions remain.
- Signatories including Geoffrey Hinton, known as 'the Godfather of AI', demand evaluators receive 'the same relevant systems, data, tools, and physical spaces' as senior employees while retaining editorial control and protection from retaliation.
- To ensure 'scientific objectivity, transparency, independence, and robust protections,' evaluators must not be owned by the companies they assess or accept contingent payment, as independent oversight should complement rather than replace internal safety efforts.
- Vinh Nguyen, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow, warned that when powerful labs control systems essential to national security and the economy, the public cannot rely solely on companies' own safety assessments.
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(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = Artificial intelligence (AI) experts from academia and civic groups [are] arguing for the necessity of independent safety assessors stationed at major AI companies...
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More Than 100 AI Experts Sign a Letter Saying that OpenAI & Anthropic Need Independent AI Safety Evaluators
The coalition, organized by the AI Evaluator Forum, published a public letter Friday laying out minimum conditions for third-party organizations embedded inside leading AI companies.
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