Anthropic and OpenAI Want to Embed Safety Evaluators. Will They Really Be Independent?
Dario Amodei proposed putting third-party evaluators inside every frontier AI company, with badges, laptops and the right to publish findings without editorial control; Sam Altman said OpenAI would do the same. The evaluators themselves welcome the idea and do not yet believe it. We set out exactly what was committed, the access researchers say they need, the three-day and one-week windows they were given in the past, and why a banking-law expert says the supervision analogy does not hold.