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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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Brad CarsonAmericans for Responsible Innovation presidentvotes For and says:
By establishing robust safety standards for developers, requiring independent assurance of those standards, and ensuring transparency into frontier AI development, the federal government can give the public meaningful protections while preserving Ame...
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OpenAI Global AffairsOpenAI's public policy team.votes For and says:
At the federal level, our Frontier Safety Blueprint calls for the federal government to require annual independent audits of frontier developers’ safety frameworks and independent third party assessments of the most advanced models, including to moni...
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votes For and says:
This paper therefore treats autonomous AI governance as a problem of infrastructure reliability. Its constructive proposal is engineered heterogeneity: the process that proposes an action should not serve as its sole approver and auditor. Independent...
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votes For and says:
Building on a structured synthesis grounded in a preregistered bibliometric baseline, we identify five cross-cutting gap dimensions in current alignment research, including the near-absence of institutionalised independent verification. To address th...
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J.B. BranchAI Governance and Technology Policy Counsel at Public Citizen.votes For and says:
Congress must establish a comprehensive federal AI safety framework with mandatory safety testing, independent audits, incident reporting requirements, and regulators empowered to remove AI systems when they pose risks.
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FathomIndependent nonprofit developing AI-governance and independent-verification frameworks.votes For and says:
The bill gets the fundamentals correct. It sets one public standard – the adequate mitigation of catastrophic risk – and holds both the AI companies and their independent verifiers accountable to it.
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Andrew FreedmanCo-Founder and CEO of Fathom, a nonprofit focused on independent AI verification and governance.votes For and says:
What will work is a competitive market of independent verifiers who are accountable for real-world outcomes and who the government can actually count on.
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Scott FranklinU.S. Representative from Florida; member of the House Appropriations Committeevotes For and says:
By tying coverage to substantial AI research and development investments and requiring transparency and independent assessments from those developers, the bill avoids one-size-fits-all mandates and allows smaller innovators to spend their time buildi...
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Greg CasarU.S. Representative from Texas; Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucusvotes For and says:
We need regular mandatory independent safety testing and oversight, mandatory disclosure of security incidents, and international cooperation to keep people safe from absolute disaster.
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Jay ObernolteU.S. Representative from Californiavotes For and says:
Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, and Congress must ensure our regulatory framework keeps pace without undermining American innovation. The FRONTIER Act focuses oversight on the largest developers and most advanced models, requiring trans...
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votes For and says:
If we place our trust in these products or machines, it is not because they are simple, transparent or harmless. It is because, over decades, we have built a genuine infrastructure of trust around them: laws, regulations, oversight authorities, certi...
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SaferAINonprofit organization researching and promoting responsible frontier AI risk management and safety governance.votes For and says:
These frameworks are now increasingly being used as a basis for external accountability mechanisms and are turning into regulatory infrastructure.
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Jack ClarkAnthropic co-founder and Head of Public Benefitvotes For and says:
At this point, everyone at the frontier of AI agrees that third parties should test out AI systems and use these to develop standards to feed into policy.
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Chris LehaneOpenAI chief global affairs officervotes For and says:
Companies developing the most capable systems should meet clear requirements, including independent audits, incident reporting, strong security standards, and whistleblower protections.
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Demis HassabisNobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMindvotes For and says:
Frontier labs would initially share their models with the body voluntarily, up to 30 days before release, for safety testing that probes dangerous cyber, biological and deception capabilities.
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Iqbal MohamedUK Member of Parliament for Dewsbury and Batley; former pharmaceutical regulatory professional.votes For and says:
Secondly, the Government must mandate independent statutory testing for AI before its release, and a yellow card scheme that would be a national register where safety incidents, near misses and harms caused by AI were reported, tracked and acted on e...
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Philippines National PoliceNational police service of the Philippines, represented at the 2026 UN Chiefs of Police Summit.votes For and says:
Deployment must be accompanied by published guidelines and independent audits.
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Brendan SteinhauserCEO of The Alliance for Secure AI; longtime Republican political strategist and former Tea Party organizervotes For and says:
Governor Pritzker deserves credit for signing this important bill into law, which was passed with strong bipartisan support. Illinois is now the first state to require independent, third-party audits of the largest AI developers’ safety practices. Wi...
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Willemien ArendsMinister for Digital Economy and Sovereignty of the Netherlands, speaking on AI governance at the UN Global Dialogue in 2026.votes For and says:
For example, if we make it more tangible and to have some, some oversight and some control of what's going to happen, we have in the Netherlands the Algorithm Framework that translates legal requirements into practical guidelines also for public orga...
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Mena El AsadyComputer science professor and member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, presenting its Working Group 1 findings in July 2026.votes For and says:
Despite the rapid advancements, the gaps show that there is a lack of independent verification standards. Today, safety verification relies on proprietary visibility and developers' goodwill rather than rigorous third-party auditing.
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European CommissionEU's executive bodyvotes For and says:
Under the AI Act, advanced AI models must be evaluated, and mitigation measures carefully assessed, before the models are placed on the EU market. This new capacity will contribute to the regulatory function of the AI Office by strengthening third-pa...
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Ravn SamboepeleCo-founder and CEO of Credo AI, an AI governance company.votes For and says:
Accountability must be engineered before deployment with the permission, oversight, audit trail need to be designed to build a time-based, not added after an incident.
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Cooley LLPInternational law firm publishing analysis of AI regulation and technology policy.votes For and says:
Illinois moves beyond transparency toward independent auditing. The statute reflects the view that AI governance programs should not only be self-reported, but also undergo external verification.
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Peggy HicksDirector of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; moderator at the 2026 UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.votes For and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Volker TürkUN human rights chiefvotes For and says:
Before a new drug reaches the market, it undergoes years of clinical trials, regulatory review, and market authorization. And this process can last between 10 and 15 years. Many drugs fail due to lack of effectiveness or safety concerns. And even wit...
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Rebecca FinlayCEO of Partnership on AI.votes For and says:
Trust must be built through verifiability that is fostered through independent third-party testing, disclosure across the AI value chain, including incident reporting.
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Government of BrazilNational government of Brazil, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.votes For and says:
Brazil supports governance frameworks that promote algorithmic transparency, accountability mechanisms, independent auditing, due diligence by governments and private companies, and effective safeguards against discrimination, manipulation, and widen...
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Government of Costa RicaNational government of Costa Rica, speaking at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.votes For and says:
Before 2027 dialogue, we should advance shared terminology, comparable risk classifications, consistent documentation, interoperable incident reporting, and multilingual evaluation methods, while building pathways towards mutual recognition of testin...
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Nighat DadFounder of the Digital Rights Foundation and digital-rights advocate.votes For and says:
Gender and child rights impact assessment must be mandatory, conducted before deployment with affected communities participating, not merely documented.
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Paul LekasSIIA public policy executivevotes Against and says:
You’ll see industry oppose outside auditors and the main reason is they would mandate something that can’t be done [today] in a robust and uniform manner.
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