Comment by Vinh X. Nguyen

Anthropic and OpenAI committed to providing independent third-party evaluators with employee-level access to assess the security and safety risks associated with model development and behavior. They have also said they will allow reviewers to publish findings without the companies’ editorial control, with only limited redaction of sensitive or legally privileged. [...] But while these early moves are welcome, there is more that AI companies themselves—as well as policymakers and sensitive industries—can and should be doing to improve safety and build public trust at this critical juncture in the development of AI. [...] The independent evaluation ecosystem is nascent and needs dependable access, safe harbor for evaluators, measurement research and infrastructure, and competitive incentives to attract talent.