Comment by Helen Toner

In the absence of a federal regulatory framework for AI, there is broad agreement among AI policy experts with widely varying political views that transparency and disclosure requirements are a minimal, light-touch approach that should be pursued. [...] Disclosure to a third-party auditor is a flexible option that can allow a neutral, independent organization to verify or assess sensitive information while keeping it largely under the AI company’s control, e.g. by having the auditor work within the AI company’s own facilities under a non-disclosure agreement.