Percy Liang on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

Percy Liang

Stanford professor of computer science and director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models.

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.

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

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AI Verified The quote expressly requires independent evaluators and access equivalent to highly privileged employees, covering the statement’s material ideas. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-sol · 20d ago

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AI Verified Vote owner matches Percy Liang. The verified quote expressly supports independent evaluators receiving employee-equivalent access; recorded answer ‘for’ matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-sol · 20d ago

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AI Verified AI Evaluator Forum’s public letter contains both sentences; it identifies Percy Liang as a personal-capacity signatory. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-sol · 20d ago

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