Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

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  Rebecca Bauer-Kahan

  California State Assembly member

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  Good AI policy requires independent verification of safety. AB 1405 will take a significant step in creating the ecosystem for independent verification to become a reality. By working in concert with Sen. McNerney we are building a framework where Ca...

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  New York State Assembly

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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...

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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...

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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.

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  California State Legislature

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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  Mustafa Suleyman

  Microsoft AI CEO; author

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  So, an intergovernmental panel on A.I. would be one that has access to all of the largest commercial labs and academic labs all around the world developing these large language models. They would be able to probe them and test them, audit them, look ...

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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...

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  Samuel Hammond

  Director of AI Policy and Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation

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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...

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  Anthropic

  AI safety research company

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  Frontier developers should engage at least one qualified independent evaluator to publish a review of their evaluations and risk reports.

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.

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  Holly Elmore

  Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US; evolutionary biologist and AI moratorium advocate

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  The governance of superintelligence has to represent the stakeholders of Earth— all people. AI companies cannot grade their own homework. They cannot be allowed to hold so much power that they eclipse democracy.

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  John Howell

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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...

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  Alan Davidson

  US Commerce official; NTIA chief

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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  UNESCO

  UN agency for education, science, culture

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  Governments should adopt a regulatory framework that sets out a procedure, particularly for public authorities, to carry out ethical impact assessments on AI systems to predict consequences, mitigate risks, avoid harmful consequences, facilitate citi...

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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.

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  Home Office

  UK government department.

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  AI models will be independently tested for accuracy and bias, building on the government-funded rigorous approach already established for live facial recognition algorithms.

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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.

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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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  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.

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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...

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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...

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  Ursula von der Leyen

  President of the European Commission

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  First of all, let’s not forget that A.I. is a tremendous opportunity — if used responsibly. But responsibility at the frontier cannot be left to chance or to any single company or country. Just as the world built institutions to govern nuclear power ...

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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, including implementation of the developer’s frontier AI framework, internal controls, and governance structures.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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  Amy Bos

  Vice President of Government Affairs

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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, yet companies would f...

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  Kevin Frazier

  Lawfare contributor

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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...

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  TechNet

  Tech industry trade association

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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...

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  Shaundra Watson

  BSA Senior Director, Policy

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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...

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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.

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  U.S. Chamber of Commerce (C_TEC)

  Largest U.S. business federation

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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...

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  Heather Curry

  BSA senior state advocacy director

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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 Senat...

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  Aswin Prabhakar

  Policy analyst, Data Innovation

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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...

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  Jennifer Huddleston

  Senior fellow, 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...

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