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Interim Executive Director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); former OpenAI board member
And they should have to let in external AI auditors to scrutinize their work so that the companies aren't just grading their own homework.
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports requiring external AI auditors to scrutinize companies' work: 'they should have to let in external AI auditors.' That is a direct endorsement of mandated third-party audits, which implies support for such audits at least for major AI systems. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports a mandate: companies "should have to let in external AI auditors to scrutinize their work," which endorses required third-party audits. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified Verified. TED’s official page identifies Helen Toner as the speaker of the TED2024 talk “How to govern AI — even if it’s hard to predict,” dated April 2024. A transcript republished by The Singju Post contains the quoted sentence verbatim, and Axios independently reported from the same TED2024 talk that Toner said companies would otherwise be “just grading their own homework,” matching the distinctive closing phrase and attribution. ([ted.com](https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_toner_how_to_govern_ai_even_if_it_s_hard_to_predict)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified: Quote text matches Helen Toner's TED2024 talk "How to Govern AI — Even If It's Hard to Predict". The exact phrasing "AI auditors to scrutinize their work so that the companies aren't just grading their own homework" appears in confirmed reporting from Bloomberg, Axios, Medium, and Singjupost transcript. Updated source URL from third-party transcript site to the official TED.com primary source. Vote "for" on "Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems" aligns directly with Toner's call for external AI auditing. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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