Daniel Kokotajlo on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

Daniel Kokotajlo

AI Futures Project founder

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.

AI Verified (Sep 18, 2026)

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Daniel Kokotajlo, personal-capacity signatory, “Minimum Conditions for Embedding Evaluators,” AI Evaluator Forum public letter, September 18, 2026, conditions 1 and 5. The page identifies Kokotajlo as Executive Director of the AI Futures Project 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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AI Verified The quote expressly calls for frontier AI companies to give embedded independent evaluators access equivalent to highly privileged employees. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 20d ago

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AI Verified The AI Evaluator Forum letter publishes the wording and identifies Daniel Kokotajlo as a personal-capacity signatory. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 20d ago

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