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Comment by Professor John McDermid

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Professor of safety-critical systems
policymakers and regulators have no choice but to deal with both open and closed-source models. [...] If independent testing were done and results on an intelligible scale were published, I think that would encourage constructive competition.
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Require open source AI models to include safety benchmarks in release notes
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AI Verified The quote is relevant. In source context, it comes during discussion of pre-release testing, open-model release documentation, and published evaluations/model cards; McDermid then says independent testing with published results would encourage competition. That strongly implies a determinate stance on requiring safety benchmark-style results to be disclosed when models are released, even though he does not use the exact phrase "release notes" and speaks more broadly than open-source alone. ([committees.parliament.uk](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13802/html/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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AI Verified He is most likely for it. He says “independent testing” and published results on “an intelligible scale” would encourage “constructive competition.” In the source context, this follows discussion of open-source models being released with model cards and evaluations, so the strongest inference is that he supports requiring disclosure of safety-benchmark results in release documentation, even though he does not explicitly say “release notes.” ([committees.parliament.uk](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13802/html/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago

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AI Verified The UK Parliament transcript is fetchable and attributes both parts of the quote to Professor John McDermid on Wednesday 8 November 2023: first, his statement that regulators must deal with both open and closed-source models, and later his statement that publishing independent-test results on an intelligible scale would encourage constructive competition. Because the omission is marked with [...], the stored quote, author, date, and source URL are supported. ([committees.parliament.uk](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13802/html/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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