Geoffrey Hinton on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

Geoffrey Hinton

Godfather of Deep Learning

Frontier AI companies should rely on evaluators that are meaningfully independent, that maintain full editorial control, and that disclose and mitigate potential conflicts of interest. [...] Frontier AI companies should grant embedded evaluators access equivalent to that of their own highly privileged employees for the purposes of their evaluations, and with exceptions to protect sensitive data belonging to the company’s customers and other third parties.

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Geoffrey Hinton, personal-capacity signatory, “Minimum Conditions for Embedding Evaluators,” AI Evaluator Forum public letter, September 18, 2026, conditions 1 and 5. The page identifies Hinton as a signatory and states that all signatories sign in their personal capacity.

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AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access

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