Dario Amodei on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

Dario Amodei

CEO at Anthropic

Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR), whose role is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes.

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We Must Pace the Frontier

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AI Verified The quote is the essay’s “Embedded Evaluators” proposal and directly states that frontier AI companies should give third-party evaluators ongoing employee-like access. This directly matches the statement “AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access.” Source: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1mo ago

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Nations should establish binding international rules for AI safety and governance

An agreement by both sides to test their models before release for acute risks in areas such as cybersecurity, biology, and alignment.

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Slow down AI development

Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too fast is reckless. We have sought a middle way: to show that it’s possible to build carefully and succeed commerc...

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

For example, one possible scheme might be a series of “checkpoints”: if models have capability X, then they need to be accompanied by certifications of alignment properties Y and Z — such as some combination of evaluations, interpretability analyses,...

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