Elham Tabassi on Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical A…

Elham Tabassi

Director of the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative at the Brookings Institution; former Chief AI Advisor at NIST and CTO of the U.S. AI Safety Institute

Pre-release testing and pre-deployment testing are important, but that type of evidence needs to continue via continual monitoring of the systems post-deployment, incident reporting, and observing behaviour in the wild rather than just in the laboratory.

AI Verified (May 25, 2026)

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Elham Tabassi, quoted in Ai Lei Tao, “AI safety cannot wait for a ‘Chernobyl moment’, experts warn,” Computer Weekly, May 25, 2026.

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Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority

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AI Verified Tabassi explicitly supports post-deployment incident reporting; this strongly supports a requirement to report critical AI safety incidents. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Recorded answer for is supported: Tabassi calls for ongoing post-deployment incident reporting as part of AI safety governance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Computer Weekly (25 May 2026) directly attributes this verbatim statement to Elham Tabassi in its AI-safety coverage. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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