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Comment by Miles Brundage
AI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Research
If you go out and buy a vacuum cleaner, you know, there will be components in it, like batteries, that have been tested by independent laboratories according to rigorous safety standards to make sure it isn't going to catch on fire. [...] Right now consumers, businesses, and governments simply have to trust what the AI labs say about these tests. No one is forcing them to conduct these evaluations or report them according to any particular set of standards.
AI Verified
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(2026)
1mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Quote attributed to Miles Brundage (founder of AVERI, former OpenAI Head of Policy Research), year 2026. The Fortune source URL returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim from the Fortune exclusive on AVERI's launch (Jan 15, 2026): Brundage used the vacuum-cleaner/battery analogy — "If you go out and buy a vacuum cleaner... there will be components in it, like batteries, that have been tested by independent laboratories according to rigorous safety standards to make sure it isn't going to catch on fire" — and noted that "right now consumers, business and governments simply have to trust what the AI labs say about these tests," with no one forcing standardized evaluations or reporting. The two-part quote with [...] bridging is faithful. He advocates external/independent auditing of frontier AI, consistent with the "for" vote on "Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems." Author attribution, year, relevancy, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 19d ago
replying to Miles Brundage