Comment by Miles Brundage

AI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Research
Outsiders lack reliable ways to judge whether leading developers' safety and security claims are accurate. [...] Broad, sustainable adoption of AI over time requires a solid foundation of trust built on credible scrutiny by independent experts. [...] Even the best current third-party AI assessments lack key features that are standard in more established industries.
AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified Verified. The arXiv source URL (2601.11699) returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but a web search confirmed the quote's content from the paper "Frontier AI Auditing: Toward Rigorous Third-Party Assessment of Safety and Security Practices at Leading AI Companies" by Miles Brundage et al. (January 16, 2026). The paper states that outsiders lack reliable ways to judge whether leading developers' safety and security claims are accurate, that broad sustainable AI adoption requires trust built on credible scrutiny by independent experts, and that AI is subject to less rigorous third-party scrutiny than established industries (consumer products, financial statements, food supply chains) — matching the quoted text. Author attribution is correct (Brundage, former OpenAI Head of Policy Research, founder of AVERI). Year 2026 is current. Regarding votes: the recent_unverified response showed vote: null, but the author already has a recorded vote on statement 74 ("Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems"); a "for" stance is unambiguously consistent with Brundage's paper and his founding of AVERI to push for independent/external AI audits. Source URL is the appropriate primary source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 10d ago
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