Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  OpenAI has also said, and I agree, “it’s important that efforts like ours submit to independent audits before releasing new systems”, but to my knowledge they have not yet submitted to such audits. They have also said “at some point, it may be import... more Verified source (2023)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  First, it is vital that AI companies–especially those working on the most powerful models–adhere to an appropriate set of safety requirements, including internal and external testing prior to release and publication of evaluation results. Verified source

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  I would be favorable to the idea that we could have an artificial intelligence agency ... inspired by what the international agency of atomic energy is today. Verified source

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  Black-box audits are insufficient for ensuring that an AI is safe and robust. At a minimum, we need white-box audits where the auditor can look inside the AI and learn about how it reasons. Verified source

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  OpenAI

  AI research organization

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  Large frontier developers should annually retain an independent third party to audit compliance with frontier safety requirements. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Mary Edly-Allen

  Illinois State Senator (D-Libertyville); lead sponsor of SB 315, a frontier AI safety and transparency bill requiring independent third-party audits of major AI developers

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  This is not about stopping innovation, but rather about balancing the great promise of AI with its potential harms. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Chris Fall

  Director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at NIST; former Energy Department official in the first Trump administration

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  Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national security implications. [...] These expanded industry collaborations help us scale our work in the public interest at a critical moment. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Nina Schwalbe

  Public health researcher; founder of Spark Street Advisors; Senior Scholar at Georgetown's O'Neill Institute; Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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  When the companies whose models are being reviewed help design the review, that is not oversight, it is theater. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Buck Shlegeris

  CEO of Redwood Research; AI safety researcher focused on AI control

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  I think it will be increasingly important for AI companies to have a policy of getting external feedback on the risks posed by their deployments, and in particular having some external accountability on whether they have adequate evidence to support ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Ben Buchanan

  White House AI special advisor

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  Congress should mandate audits of A.I. developers' safety claims and processes [...] requiring that they be conducted by independent expert bodies overseen by the government. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Miles Brundage

  AI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Research

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  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 c... more AI Verified source (2026) < 1 of 7 >

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  Francesca Rossi

  IBM Fellow and Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance

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  AI safety is no longer mainly a model issue, but rather a system and deployment issue. Governance has to extend beyond the model lifecycle into system design and management. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Volker Türk

  UN human rights chief

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  When it comes to AI tools, we need to demand that companies do a human rights impact assessment when they design, roll out and market them. [...] Artificial intelligence is a technological tool and it needs to be developed on the basis of risk assess... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  Regulate AI the way you regulate cars and aeroplanes — mandatory, third-party-assessed, and built around safety standards. [...] Does the car have brakes, does it have airbags, does it have seat belts? AI Verified source (2026) < 1 of 3 >

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  Margaret Mitchell

  Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; co-creator of model cards; former co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team

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  A lot of the people who are marginalized end up having more unfair representations. [...] Regulation is tending to lag AI development. AI Verified source (2026)

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  Gillian Hadfield

  Legal scholar and AI governance researcher; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute)

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  Legislatures and regulators face significant challenges in rapidly translating conventional command-and-control legal requirements into technical requirements. [...] Overreliance on industry to provide technical standards fails to ensure that the man... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Rumman Chowdhury

  AI ethicist and Humane Intelligence CEO

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  The bill's requirement for independent, periodic third-party audits for high-risk AI systems is particularly important. The most meaningful improvements have come when evaluations are run by entities structurally independent of product and revenue te... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Jennifer Scanlon

  President and CEO of UL Solutions; chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Board of Directors

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  Innovation without safety is failure. Whether or not there's government regulation around this, our customers are coming to us because they need broader protections and assurances. They're clamoring to have at least a standard that they can adhere to... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  New York State Assembly

  State legislative chamber

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  later, a large developer shall annually retain a third party to perform an independent audit of compliance with the requirements of this section. Such third party shall conduct audits consistent with best practices. (c) The third party shall produce... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Partnership on AI

  AI governance nonprofit, multi-stakeholder

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  PAI also welcomes the requirement for external evaluations of some GPAI models. Independent assessment of model capabilities and risks is crucial to ensure that evaluators have the broad range of expertise needed to do their job. It is also needed to... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Arvind Narayanan

  Princeton computer science professor

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  Let me start with the structural point. Right now, the state of evaluation in AI is like the auto industry before independent safety testing. It’s as if car makers were the only ones evaluating their own products—for crash safety, environmental impac... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  New York State Senate

  State legislative chamber, New York

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  2025-S1169A (ACTIVE) - Summary Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general ... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Thomas P. DiNapoli

  New York State Comptroller

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  Establishing good AI governance will require efforts on several fronts. We need a framework that sets clear boundaries for using AI and guidelines and training that help agencies understand and adhere to these standards. Systems must be tested, and n... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Alex Bores

  New York State Assemblymember

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  So the RAISE Act asks for companies to do four things. They have to have an SSP. They have to have that SSP audited by a third party, not the government. They actually have to choose their own third party that does that. They have to disclose critica... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Center for AI Policy (CAIP)

  AI policy nonprofit organization

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  CAIP's primary recommendation is to implement mandatory third-party national security audits for advanced AI systems. This measure would enable security agencies to understand potential threats better and verify the safety of leading AI technologies. Verified source (2025)

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  Jake Laperruque

  Center for Democracy & Technology deputy director

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  Principles for responsible use of AI technologies should be applied broadly across development and deployment. In particular, Government use of AI should be: (1) Built upon proper training data; (2) Subject to independent testing and high performance... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  California State Legislature

  State legislative body

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  (e) (1) Beginning January 1, 2026, a developer of a covered model shall annually retain a third-party auditor that conducts audits consistent with best practices for auditors to perform an independent audit of compliance with the requirements of this... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Accountable Tech

  Tech accountability advocacy nonprofit

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  Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (SB 1047) — a landmark bill that would have implemented crucial guardrails around AI development, including requiring pre-de... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Scott Wiener

  California state senator

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  Requiring companies get third-party safety audits by 2028.[...] “As AI technology continues its rapid improvement, it has the potential to provide massive benefits to humanity. We can support that innovation without compromising safety, and SB 1047 a... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Peter Kyle

  UK shadow technology secretary, Labour

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  We will move from a voluntary code to a statutory code, so that those companies engaging in that kind of research and development have to release all of the test data and tell us what they are testing for, so we can see exactly what is happening and ... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Lawrence Lessig

  Harvard Law professor

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  At its core, SB1047 does one small but incredibly important thing: It requires that those developing the most advanced AI models adopt and follow safety protocols—including shutdown protocols—to reduce any risk that their models are stolen or deploye... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Ed Markey

  U.S. senator from Massachusetts

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  Whether on the Senate floor or around the dining room table, artificial intelligence is the hottest topic of the year. But these complex algorithms have a darker side as well — one that has real consequences for everyday people, especially marginaliz... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Alan B. Davidson

  Former NTIA administrator, attorney

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  We set out to answer an important question: If we want responsible innovation and trustworthy AI, how do we hold AI systems — and the entities and individuals that develop, deploy, and use them — accountable? How do we ensure that they are doing what... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

  Privacy and civil liberties NGO

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  NIST should recommend that Congress invest substantial resources in the development and implementation of third-party, independent audits and impact assessments for AI AI Verified source (2024)

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  Bruce Schneier

  Security technologist and author

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  We need to figure out new ways of auditing and reviewing to make sure the AI-type mistakes don't wreck our work. AI Verified source (2024)

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  Helen Toner

  Interim Executive Director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); former OpenAI board member

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  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. AI Verified source (2024)

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  John Hickenlooper

  U.S. Senator from Colorado

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  But we can’t let an industry with so many unknowns and potential harms police itself. We need clear rules that we can rely on to prevent AI’s harms. And while those exact rules are still being discussed, what we do know is that in the long-term we c... more Verified source (2024)

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  National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

  US Commerce Department telecom agency

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  Audits and other independent evaluations: Federal agencies should require independent audits and regulatory inspections of high-risk AI model classes and systems – such as those that present a high risk of harming rights or safety. AI Verified source (2024)

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  Suresh Venkatasubramanian

  Brown CS professor; former OSTP official

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  The truth is AI systems are not magic: AI is technology. Like any other piece of technology that has benefited us — drugs, cars, planes — AI needs guardrails so we can be protected from the worst failures, while still benefiting from the progress AI ... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Jack Clark

  Anthropic cofounder and policy researcher

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  Frontier AI developers should commit to detailed and independently scrutinized scaling policies. Governments should work on national and international safety standards of AI training and deployment. Governments should require audits of AI systems dur... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Darrell M. West

  Brookings technology policy scholar

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  Since AI remains in the early stages of testing, it is important to have external monitoring of model results. Large language models should be tested through third parties and results made available to the public. That will help people understand how... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Rishi Sunak

  Former UK prime minister

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  Until now the only people testing the safety of new AI models have been the very companies developing it. We shouldn’t rely on them to mark their own homework, as many of them agree. Today we’ve reached a historic agreement, with governments and AI c... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Government of the United Kingdom

  United Kingdom central government

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  Participating countries committed, depending on their circumstances, to the development of appropriate state-led evaluation and safety research while participating companies agreed that they would support the next iteration of their models to undergo... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Richard Blumenthal

  U.S. Senator from Connecticut

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  Sensible safeguards are not in opposition to innovation. Accountability is not a burden far from it. They are the foundation of how we can move ahead while protecting public trust. They are how we can lead the world in technology and science, but als... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Rob Bonta

  California attorney general

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  I’m pleased to join a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general to share with the NTIA our recommendations on this critical issue. In the letter, the Attorneys General: Call for independent standards for AI transparency, testing, assessments, and au... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft Vice Chair & President

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  Although developers like Microsoft are addressing these risks through rigorous testing and selfimposed standards, the risks involved are too important, and their scale and potential impacts at present too unknowable, to address them through self-regu... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM)

  Stanford foundation models research center

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  6. External auditing. Providers of high-impact foundation models shall provide sufficient model access, as determined by the AI Office, to approved independent third-party auditors. Note: The AI Office should create and maintain a certification proce... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Ada Lovelace Institute

  UK AI policy research institute

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  regularly reviewing and updating guidance to keep pace with technology and strengthen their abilities to oversee new AI capabilities setting procurement requirements to ensure that foundation models developed by private companies for the public sect... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Dewey Murdick

  CSET executive director, AI governance

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  This approach likens AI models to spacecraft venturing into unexplored celestial territories. Think of each new AI model as a spaceship. Before it “launches,” developers need to provide the plans, clear the airspace for launch, etc. And, after launch... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  This would require comprehensive evaluation of potential harm through independent audits AI Verified source (2023)

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  Michael Bennet

  U.S. Senator from Colorado

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  AI systems that pose higher risk should undergo regular third-party audits. AI Verified source (2023)

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  This committee has discussed ideas such as third-party testing, a new national agency, and an international coordinating body, all of which I support. Here are some more ways to “move fast and fix things”: Eventually, we will develop forms of AI tha... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Samuel Hammond

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  LLM scaling laws also suggest the computing resources required to train large models are a reasonable proxy for model power and generality. Consistent with our argument for refining the definition of AI systems, the NTIA should thus consider defining... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Consumer Reports

  Consumer advocacy nonprofit

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  Require companies that make tools used in consequential decisions to undergo independent, third-party testing for bias, accuracy and more pre-deployment, and regularly after deployment. Clear and consistent standards should be developed for testing a... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  AlgorithmWatch

  Algorithmic accountability nonprofit

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  Alongside its provisions on improved transparency and data access for researchers, the Commission’s draft calls for two additional layers of oversight for very large platforms: Audits by independent auditors and auditing powers for regulators. We wel... more AI Verified source (2020)

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  Tristan Harris

  Center for Humane Technology cofounder

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  I think in the future, we’re going to need to audit technology products in terms of how they actually stimulate our nervous system. AI Unverifiable source (2020)

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  Kartik Hosanagar

  Wharton professor of technology decisions

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  Cybersecurity risk provides more than a warning; it also offers an answer. Cybersecurity audits have become a norm for companies today, and the responsibility and liability for cyber risk audits goes all the way up to the board of directors. I believ... more AI Verified source (2019)

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  Oren Etzioni

  AI2 founder; UW professor

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  For both business and technical reasons, automatically generated, high-fidelity explanations of most AI decisions are not currently possible. That’s why we should be pushing for the external audit of AI systems responsible for high-stakes decision ma... more AI Verified source (2019)

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  Electronic Frontier Foundation

  We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online.

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  We doubt these algorithmic tools are ready for prime time, and the state of California should not have embraced their use before establishing ways to scrutinize them for bias, fairness, and accuracy. They must also be transparent and open to regular... more AI Verified source (2018)

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  NetChoice

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  Illinois SB 315's mandatory third-party AI audit requirement creates an impossible compliance burden — there are no recognized auditing standards, certified auditors or established methodologies for frontier model safety audits. [...] Companies canno... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Kevin Frazier

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  Finally, it’s not clear how well some of the act’s provisions reflect the current state of the AI ecosystem. The act demands that labs hire an independent third party to complete an annual audit of their protocols to ensure compliance with the act. T... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Frontier Model Forum

  Frontier AI industry forum

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  Third-party assessments can be conducted on frontier models to confirm evaluations or claims on critical safety capabilities and mitigations. In appropriate contexts, these assessments may help to confirm or build confidence in safety claims, add rob... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Aodhan Downey

  CCIA state policy manager

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  We agree with California’s leadership that children’s online safety is of the utmost importance, and our members prioritize advanced tools that reflect that priority. But SB 243 casts too wide a net, applying strict rules to everyday AI tools that we... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  TechNet

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  TechNet believes it is premature to mandate independent third-party auditing of AI systems. Mandating an independent audit before appropriate technical standards and conformity assessment requirements are established could open AI systems to national... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Heather Curry

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  “The Business Software Alliance is concerned by the New York State Senate’s passage of the New York AI Act. BSA is committed to helping policymakers develop legislation to address high-risk uses of AI, but this bill advanced through the New York Sena... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Cato Institute

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  Mandated transparency may also not actually improve consumer education around their privacy choices. First, many consumers may grow fatigued and frustrated with the constant pop ups and consents as they do with current cookie pop ups. Second, a gover... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  BSA | The Software Alliance

  Software industry trade association

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  Despite the substantial benefits of internal impact assessments, there is a growing chorus of voices in AI policy discussions advocating for mandatory third-party audits. Supporters argue that external safeguards are needed to promote meaningful tran... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Shelley Moore Capito

  U.S. Senator from West Virginia

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  This commonsense bill will allow for a voluntary set of guidelines for AI, which will only help the development of systems that choose to adopt them. I look forward to getting this bill and our AI Research Innovation and Accountability Act passed out... more AI Verified source (2024) < 1 of 2 >

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  Databricks

  Data and AI software company

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  The AI audit ecosystem is not mature enough to support mandatory third-party audits. AI Verified source (2024)

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  European Union

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  2. For high-risk AI systems referred to in points 2 to 8 of Annex III, providers shall follow the conformity assessment procedure based on internal control as referred to in Annex VI, which does not provide for the involvement of a notified body. ... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)

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  AI audits should focus on risk assessment programs rather than individual AI applications. Auditing each application will result in a misallocation of resources, with too much effort spent on low-risk AI (e.g., spam filters, graphics generation for g... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  U.S. Chamber of Commerce (C_TEC)

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  The Chamber recognizes the purpose of certification, audits, and assessments as a means for organizations to utilize repeatable and standard methodologies to help them improve the explainability of an algorithm. [...] Furthermore, there are strong ap... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Adam Thierer

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  Society cannot wait years or even months for regulators to eventually get around to formally signing off on mandated algorithmic audits or impact assessments AI Verified source (2023)

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  Aswin Prabhakar

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  Under the current stipulations, these researchers would be obligated to maintain extensive documentation for their model. Further, the language in Article 28b(2(a)) seems to imply that providers of foundation models would be required to contract thir... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Cathy O'Neil

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  Most of the people that come to us do so for a reason. They’ve been getting in trouble for biased algorithms and they want us to clear their name. But until this NYC law passed, we didn’t have much hope for companies coming to us unless they have to.... more AI Verified source (2022)

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  Daniel Castro

  Director, Center for Data Innovation

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  The third provision requires organizations to have third parties conduct annual audits of their algorithmic decision-making, including to look for disparate-impact risks, and create and retain an audit trail for at least five years that documents eac... more AI Verified source (2022)

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  Meredith Whittaker

  Signal President; AI policy advocate

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  While auditing standards and transparency are necessary to answer fundamental questions, they will not address these harms. AI Verified source (2020)

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