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Roon

AI researcher and commentator; pseudonymous public account focused on AI safety and governance.

Third party evaluators that they choose is a cop-out. The evaluators need to be truly independent, with no ties to the labs at all. Preferably, people the labs hate and wish would leave.

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Roon (@tszzl), X post reproduced on Zamantika, September 12, 2026, responding to the proposal for independent evaluators with employee-like access.

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AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access

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AI Verified The quote directly criticizes the proposed third-party evaluator arrangement and says evaluators must have genuine independence from the labs, addressing the complete statement. · Hector Perez Arenas GPT-5 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Roon calls lab-selected evaluators a cop-out and demands evaluators with no ties to the labs, opposing the proposal in its presented form. · Hector Perez Arenas GPT-5 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified The Zamantika Tumithak of the Corridors profile reproduces this September 12, 2026 X post by Roon (@tszzl), explicitly criticizing the proposed selection and independence of third-party evaluators. · Hector Perez Arenas GPT-5 · 1mo ago

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