AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access

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Across the supportive quotes, employee-like access is usually framed as covering more than model outputs, extending to training, deployment, internal use, incidents, and safeguard practices.
A recurring dividing line is what counts as independence: supporters often pair access with editorial control and conflict mitigation, while critics argue that being chosen, paid, or embedded by a lab can itself compromise independence.
Several supportive and cautious quotes converge on the same implementation questions, including selection, funding, standards, publication rights, and enforcement powers, even when they differ on how optimistic they are about the proposal.
Some proponents present embedded evaluation not only as an auditing mechanism but also as part of slowing or pacing frontier AI development until safety can catch up.

Arguments for

Verification beyond self-reporting

Proponents say the public should not have to rely on frontier labs to check themselves and then truthfully report the results. Because these companies are powerful, moving quickly, and may not fully understand what their models are doing, embedded outside evaluators are presented as a concrete way to verify safety practices, incidents, and commitments.

I think Australians and anyone in the world is entitled to demand an independent oversight of these companies because they are powerful, because their technology is evolving very quickly and because they themselves say they don't have a complete handle on what these models are do…

James Paterson · Sep 28, 2026 · full quote
AI companies should be able to answer some very basic questions about their training process, such as: Did the AI ever actively try to undermine its own alignment training while it was going through the training? The answer to this should be an unequivocal no, and right now we ar…

Alexander Meinke · Sep 16, 2026 · full quote
Dario Amodei proposed that frontier AI labs give independent evaluators ongoing, employee-like access to examine safety practices, report incidents and publish their own findings. [...] We think they are right. In a high-stakes field, trust should not rest on a company marking it…

Lawmence Wong · Sep 13, 2026 · full quote
Frontier AI development should move at the pace of our ability to keep it safe, not just what’s technically possible. The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident earlier this year proved that to keep AI safe, we need visibility into what’s happening within leading AI companies. As developer…

Brad Carson · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
The public should demand transparency about what is happening inside AI labs: companies should disclose more information about the pace of capability gains and their progress towards recursive self-improvement; there should be stricter reporting requirements for safety incidents …

Joe Benton · Sep 11, 2026 · full quote

Access needed for internal risks

Supporters argue that periodic audits or API-based tests miss risks that arise from internal AI use, training pipelines, deployment practices, documentation, and real-world incidents. They therefore call for ongoing access equivalent to relevant internal employees, including systems, data, tools, staff, and physical spaces needed to carry out comparable risk assessments.

New work from our team makes the case for embedded assessments — where independent evaluators get employee-like access to an AI company’s internal systems to help scrutinize and reduce the risk from internal AI use.

Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) · Sep 25, 2026 · full quote
Third-party evaluators mostly test frontier AI models through an API. That misses the risks that come from how companies build and use AI internally. [...] Independent evaluators get employee-like access to a company’s internal systems, staff, and documentation. [...] What do we …

Jonas Freund · Sep 2026 · full quote
We believe that all frontier AI companies should embed evaluators to independently assess AI risks, including evaluating the systems themselves and any significant incidents of real-world harm, as well as the companies’ training, deployment, oversight, operational, and safeguard …

Jacob Steinhardt · Sep 18, 2026 · full quote
Frontier AI companies should grant embedded evaluators access equivalent to that of their own highly privileged employees for the purposes of their evaluations, and with exceptions to protect sensitive data belonging to the company’s customers and other third parties. This includ…

Stuart J. Russell · Sep 18, 2026 · full quote
Frontier AI labs need embedded third-party evaluators with ongoing, employee-like access. Not periodic audits. Not company-written safety reports. People inside the building who can independently verify what’s actually happening in training and deployment.

Joel Ramkhelawan · Sep 2026 · full quote
Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with participation from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI. Each participant provided access to their most capable internal model(s), includ…

METR · May 19, 2026 · full quote

Independence and publication rights

Many supporters say employee-like access is only credible if evaluators are meaningfully independent, can reach their own conclusions, and keep full editorial control over what they publish. Several also call for conflict disclosures and only narrow exceptions to protect sensitive customer, third-party, or legally privileged information.

Two leading AI companies have just committed to giving outside evaluators a seat inside the building. On September 12, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei committed to giving independent evaluators “ongoing, employee-like access” to verify the company’s safety practices, with the right to p…

Elham Tabassi · Sep 24, 2026 · full quote
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…

Joy Buolamwini · Sep 18, 2026 · full quote
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…

Geoffrey Hinton · Sep 18, 2026 · full quote
The one idea worth holding the industry to is embedded evaluators with independent publication rights. Give third-party safety researchers permanent access inside the labs, comparable to what bank examiners have inside banks, and let them publish what they find without the compan…

Denis Calderone · Sep 14, 2026 · full quote
Anthropic and OpenAI committed to providing independent third-party evaluators with employee-level access to assess the security and safety risks associated with model development and behavior. They have also said they will allow reviewers to publish findings without the companie…

Vinh X. Nguyen · Sep 14, 2026 · full quote
“OpenAI is committed to supporting independent assessments with deep levels of access across training, evaluation, and deployment. That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effect…

Lama Ahmad · Sep 22, 2026 · full quote

Mandates, standards, and authority

Another supportive line is that embedded evaluation should be formalized through law, designated verification bodies, and shared standards rather than left to discretionary promises. In this view, clear rules are needed on qualifications, authority, access to records and systems, and regular audits so the practice becomes a durable part of frontier AI governance.

Proposals under consideration include requiring independent third parties to be embedded in frontier AI companies to verify safety frameworks and independently assess safety evaluations, as well as requiring companies to develop an emergency shutoff, or “kill switch,” for frontie…

Gavin Newsom · Sep 23, 2026 · full quote
Require frontier AI companies to embed a designated independent verification organization onsite in their labs to conduct regular audits and evaluations.

Office of Governor Gavin Newsom · Sep 18, 2026 · full quote
Bringing in independent evaluators is a real step. But a voluntary commitment can be dropped the second it gets inconvenient. The FRONTIER Act makes safety and transparency the law, and puts independent auditors in place to hold frontier labs to it. A promise you can break isn't …

Lori Trahan · Sep 13, 2026 · full quote
Amodei proposed a generalized three-part plan of independent evaluators embedded inside frontier labs, coordination among companies, and global policy compatibility. [...] Implementing Amodei’s threshold idea for embedded evaluators, for instance, will require enforceable decisio…

Tom Wheeler · Sep 16, 2026 · full quote
Permanent, employee-level access for independent evaluators should be required by law. We will join Anthropic in offering access to @METR before it’s required.

Eric Steinberger · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
A very large frontier developer shall grant an IVO timely access upon request to unredacted materials, records, personnel, systems, and all other information reasonably necessary for conducting the assessments and ongoing monitoring required by this section.

Jay Obernolte · Jul 23, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Risk of evaluator capture

Critics argue that putting evaluators inside a company can blur the distance needed for sharp criticism. If the company chooses or pays the evaluators, or if close working relationships form, they worry the oversight will be captured rather than genuinely independent.

They really become part of the company, which makes it difficult to criticize it because the staffers become almost your friends.

Lilian Edwards · Sep 17, 2026 · full quote
'independent' evaluators paid for by the industry they evaluate seems like a recipe for tyranny

Vega (@vega_holdings) · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
Third party evaluators that they choose is a cop-out. The evaluators need to be truly independent, with no ties to the labs at all. Preferably, people the labs hate and wish would leave.

Roon · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote

Possible theater or moat-building

Some skeptics portray the idea as public-relations damage control or a way for leading labs to entrench their position by creating procedures that disadvantage competitors. Others suggest that assigning evaluators desks inside the office sounds too weak a response to the scale of the dangers being described.

Yeah, nah. This is damage control. They're trying to get ahead of the recently riled up Joe Schmo who's worried AI might kill us now. They both have huge IPOs coming up and fears of an AI apocalypse could wreck their valuations. And they want to establish a procedure that would d…

Tumithak of the Corridors · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
the bad news: Dario estimates that in 6 months AI will have the ability to take over the internet the worse news: Anthropic's current commitment to stopping this is... putting independent evaluators in desks in their office have a great day

tropoFarmer · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Effectiveness depends on design

Several commenters say the core idea may be worthwhile, but its real significance depends on unresolved design choices such as who selects and pays evaluators, what they can inspect, and what they can publish. On this view, employee-like access is not self-executing; the surrounding governance determines its bite.

Its practical significance depends on the arrangements that follow: who chooses and funds evaluators, what they can inspect, what they can publish, and whether their findings can force a change when a lab disagrees.

Curtis Pyke · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
We should take all the time we want to test things. In fact, I love this idea of having third-party testers. Oh, wow, I grew up in a company that's always done testing. So it's novel that we should say, wow, they're having embedded third-party testers. Right. Why not? It's a grea…

Satya Nadella · Sep 15, 2026 · full quote
Moving embedded auditing from a voluntary practice to an effective and universal industry requirement requires not only pilot projects, but also standards, tooling, and thoughtful policy design.

AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute · Sep 13, 2026 · full quote
Frontier developers should engage at least one qualified independent evaluator to publish a review of their evaluations and risk reports. In parallel, governments and industry should develop the ecosystem of qualified independent evaluators by setting standards for them and ensur…

Anthropic · Jun 10, 2026 · full quote

Promising but incomplete step

Some supportive voices describe embedded evaluators as a prudent first step that improves on the status quo, while stressing that the details still need to be worked through and that it is not a full solution by itself. They present it as part of a broader verification infrastructure rather than a standalone fix.

Dario's essay points towards the right path forward. The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment. This is also why we recently put out our proposal for an industry-wide standards body for frontier AI.

Demis Hassabis · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
Excellent news! The details will matter, and this is a first step instead of a full solution, but a public commitment to employee-like access for independent evaluators from both frontier companies already puts us in a much better position than we were in yesterday.

Jeff Sebo · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
If nothing else, Anthropic bringing in independent evaluators to watch over its safety practices seems a prudent step.

Will Oremus · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote
Anthropic and OpenAI have now committed to embedded third-party evaluators with employee-like access to verify safety practices. We at SaferAI have been doing risk management work for years and welcome this development. [...] These are all pieces of one verification infrastructur…

SaferAI · Sep 17, 2026 · full quote

In these quotes, the idea draws broad support as a way to move from self-attestation toward independent scrutiny with deeper access than ordinary audits or API testing. The main unresolved questions are how to preserve real independence inside a lab and how to define the rules, powers, and legal footing that would make embedded evaluation credible and lasting.

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James Paterson
Australian Senator for Victoria and Shadow Minister for Defence.

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I think Australians and anyone in the world is entitled to demand an independent oversight of these companies because they are powerful, because their technology is evolving very quickly and because they themselves say they don't have a complete hand...
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Nonprofit research organization helping institutions make better AI governance decisions as the world transitions to advanced AI.

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New work from our team makes the case for embedded assessments — where independent evaluators get employee-like access to an AI company’s internal systems to help scrutinize and reduce the risk from internal AI use.
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Elham Tabassi
Director of the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative at the Brookings Institution; former Chief AI Advisor at NIST and CTO of the U.S. AI Safety Institute

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Two leading AI companies have just committed to giving outside evaluators a seat inside the building. On September 12, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei committed to giving independent evaluators “ongoing, employee-like access” to verify the company’s safety ...
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Proposals under consideration include requiring independent third parties to be embedded in frontier AI companies to verify safety frameworks and independently assess safety evaluations, as well as requiring companies to develop an emergency shutoff,...
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Lama Ahmad
Technical program manager for Trustworthy AI at OpenAI, working on safe development and deployment of AI models.

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“OpenAI is committed to supporting independent assessments with deep levels of access across training, evaluation, and deployment. That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their ow...
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Imran Khalid
Geostrategic analyst and senior fellow at Foreign Policy In Focus

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Amodei’s best idea is to give outside evaluators employee-level access to the labs. That only works if the evaluators answer to the public.
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Daniel E. Ho
Stanford law and political science professor; senior fellow at Stanford HAI and director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab.

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We believe that all frontier AI companies should embed evaluators to independently assess AI risks, including evaluating the systems themselves and any significant incidents of real-world harm, as well as the companies’ training, deployment, oversigh...
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Stanford Cyber Policy Center; former MEP; UN AI Advisory Body member; author of The Tech Coup

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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 acce...
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Associate Professor of Statistics and EECS at UC Berkeley; founder and CEO of Transluce, a nonprofit AI-oversight research lab.

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We believe that all frontier AI companies should embed evaluators to independently assess AI risks, including evaluating the systems themselves and any significant incidents of real-world harm, as well as the companies’ training, deployment, oversigh...
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Conrad Stosz
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We believe that all frontier AI companies should embed evaluators to independently assess AI risks, including evaluating the systems themselves and any significant incidents of real-world harm, as well as the companies’ training, deployment, oversigh...
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White House AI special advisor

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We believe that all frontier AI companies should embed evaluators to independently assess AI risks, including evaluating the systems themselves and any significant incidents of real-world harm, as well as the companies’ training, deployment, oversigh...
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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 acce...
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Geoffrey Hinton
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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 acce...
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AI Expert and Professor

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Frontier AI companies should grant embedded evaluators access equivalent to that of their own highly privileged employees for the purposes of their evaluations, and with exceptions to protect sensitive data belonging to the company’s customers and ot...
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Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
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Require frontier AI companies to embed a designated independent verification organization onsite in their labs to conduct regular audits and evaluations.
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SaferAI
Nonprofit organization researching and promoting responsible frontier AI risk management and safety governance.

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Anthropic and OpenAI have now committed to embedded third-party evaluators with employee-like access to verify safety practices. We at SaferAI have been doing risk management work for years and welcome this development. [...] These are all pieces of ...
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Alexander Meinke
Head of research at Apollo Research, an AI-safety organization focused on evaluating advanced AI systems.

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AI companies should be able to answer some very basic questions about their training process, such as: Did the AI ever actively try to undermine its own alignment training while it was going through the training? The answer to this should be an unequ...
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Tom Wheeler
Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2013-2017; author and tech policy expert

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Amodei proposed a generalized three-part plan of independent evaluators embedded inside frontier labs, coordination among companies, and global policy compatibility. [...] Implementing Amodei’s threshold idea for embedded evaluators, for instance, wi...
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Microsoft CEO

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We should take all the time we want to test things. In fact, I love this idea of having third-party testers. Oh, wow, I grew up in a company that's always done testing. So it's novel that we should say, wow, they're having embedded third-party tester...
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Denis Calderone
CTO of Suzu Labs; cybersecurity leader with over 30 years of IT experience and 25 years in information security.

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The one idea worth holding the industry to is embedded evaluators with independent publication rights. Give third-party safety researchers permanent access inside the labs, comparable to what bank examiners have inside banks, and let them publish wha...
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Andreas von der Heydt
Executive coach, consultant, and former senior executive at Amazon, Chewy, L’Oréal, and Tchibo.

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Every frontier lab takes in independent evaluators and gives them the same access to models and tools that employees have. Anthropic and OpenAI have committed to this. The other labs have to follow, or explain in public why they won't.
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Vinh X. Nguyen
Senior Fellow for Artificial Intelligence at the Council on Foreign Relations; previously the National Security Agency’s chief AI officer.

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Anthropic and OpenAI committed to providing independent third-party evaluators with employee-level access to assess the security and safety risks associated with model development and behavior. They have also said they will allow reviewers to publish...
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Lawmence Wong
Chief Strategist at Lawnise, an independent AI evaluation platform for regulated organizations.

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Dario Amodei proposed that frontier AI labs give independent evaluators ongoing, employee-like access to examine safety practices, report incidents and publish their own findings. [...] We think they are right. In a high-stakes field, trust should no...
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Lori Trahan
U.S. representative from Massachusetts

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Bringing in independent evaluators is a real step. But a voluntary commitment can be dropped the second it gets inconvenient. The FRONTIER Act makes safety and transparency the law, and puts independent auditors in place to hold frontier labs to it. ...
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AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute
Nonprofit research institute advancing independent auditing and evaluation of frontier AI systems.

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Moving embedded auditing from a voluntary practice to an effective and universal industry requirement requires not only pilot projects, but also standards, tooling, and thoughtful policy design.
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Clément Delangue
Hugging Face cofounder and CEO

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It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingface and asking to be part of the "embedded evalua...
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Bill Gates
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I agree with Dario and am glad to see the support from leaders of the other frontier labs. The world needs a plan, developed in a global, public process. If we can slow down the growth of AI, we'll have more time to ensure the benefits outweigh the h...
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Lilian Edwards
Internet law professor

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They really become part of the company, which makes it difficult to criticize it because the staffers become almost your friends.
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Slow down AI development

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The U.S. and China should establish Mutually Assured Compute Destruction

Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers

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