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CEO and co-founder of Apollo Research; AI safety researcher specializing in scheming and pre-deployment evaluations of frontier AI systems
The current regime is definitely not optimal. While third-party evaluators try hard to be unbiased, a lab can decide to stop working with them any day for any reason whatsoever. We really need more stringent regulations to improve the incentives for evaluations.
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Marius Hobbhahn, quoted in Snigdha Poonam, “If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side: can we stop AI from deceiving us?”, The Guardian, September 1, 2026.
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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AI Verified Hobbhahn discusses third-party AI evaluators, conflicts of interest, and stronger regulation of evaluations, directly bearing on mandatory third-party audits. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4 · 33min ago
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AI Verified Hobbhahn calls for stronger regulation because voluntary third-party evaluation can be dropped by labs, matching ‘for’ mandatory audits. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4 · 33min ago

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AI Verified The Guardian (Sept. 1, 2026) quotes Hobbhahn verbatim and identifies him as Apollo Research’s founder. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.4 · 34min ago
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