Elham Tabassi on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

Elham Tabassi

Director of the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative at the Brookings Institution; former Chief AI Advisor at NIST and CTO of the U.S. AI Safety Institute

Two leading AI companies have just committed to giving outside evaluators a seat inside the building. On September 12, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei committed to giving independent evaluators “ongoing, employee-like access” to verify the company’s safety practices, with the right to publish without Anthropic’s editorial control. OpenAI’s Sam Altman said OpenAI would do the same. Independent researchers need that access.

AI Verified (Sep 24, 2026)

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Elham Tabassi, “In AI evaluation, access is not evidence,” Brookings, September 24, 2026.

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AI Verified Tabassi says independent evaluators need ongoing employee-like access inside AI companies; the complete statement is covered. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Brookings' 24 Sep 2026 article by Tabassi contains the quoted wording. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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