Lori Trahan on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

Lori Trahan

U.S. representative from Massachusetts

Bringing in independent evaluators is a real step. But a voluntary commitment can be dropped the second it gets inconvenient. The FRONTIER Act makes safety and transparency the law, and puts independent auditors in place to hold frontier labs to it. A promise you can break isn't a durable safeguard.

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Lori Trahan (@RepLoriTrahan), X post, September 13, 2026. The post supports mandating independent auditors for frontier AI labs and links to a Fathom statement about independent verification.

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AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access

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AI Verified Trahan argues independent auditors must hold frontier labs accountable; this supports meaningful independent evaluator access. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Trahan supports independent auditors holding frontier labs accountable; recorded answer matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Cited page reproduces Lori Trahan’s 13 Sep post with this exact text and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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Establish an international AI incident reporting system

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

As AI systems grow more capable, Americans deserve confidence that the most powerful models are being developed responsibly. The bipartisan FRONTIER Act delivers commonsense transparency and independent oversight for the largest AI developers while g...

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

There's much more to do, including giving CAISI the authority to create the standards we need to know whether a frontier model is safe before it ships, not after something goes wrong.

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