Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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Arguments for

Safety proof before release

Proponents argue that frontier developers should have to demonstrate safety before launch, because high-capability models can create serious or catastrophic risks. On this view, evaluations and mitigations are a deployment gate, and release should be delayed, blocked, or reversed if the model does not meet a high safety bar.

If... we were to find that we were reaching a critical capability level and we didn't have the appropriate mitigations, then we would not be launching.

Helen King · Jul 16, 2026 · full quote
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.

Dario Amodei · Jun 10, 2026 · full quote
Make companies prove their systems are safe before release — at every step, the burden of proof should be on the companies, not the consumer or the public.

Delia Ramirez · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
Under the AI Act, advanced AI models must be evaluated, and mitigation measures carefully assessed, before the models are placed on the EU market.

Henna Virkkunen · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Frontier model AI systems have the potential to be used for many good things. However, due to their massive computing power, they also could cause catastrophic events, such as cyberattacks or the system evading control by developers or users. In the absence of federal oversight o…

Kwame Raoul · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote

Transparency enables accountability

Supporters say publishing safety frameworks, model cards, risk assessments, and evaluation results gives the public, users, and regulators a clearer basis for trust and oversight. They present upfront disclosure as a way to identify limitations and harms, assign responsibility, and avoid asking the public to accept company claims without evidence.

A documented safety framework with risk assessments for frontier models and public disclosure of those assessments and their results.

Chris Lehane · Jul 15, 2026 · full quote
“Transparency,” in this context, means requiring frontier AI companies to publish frontier safety frameworks (documents describing how the company evaluates and addresses catastrophic risks from the company’s most advanced AI models) and model cards (documents accompanying the re…

Charlie Bullock · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
BEFORE, OR CONCURRENTLY WITH, DEPLOYING A NEW FRONTIER MODEL OR A SUBSTANTIALLY MODIFIED VERSION OF AN EXISTING FRONTIER MODEL, A LARGE FRONTIER DEVELOPER SHALL INCLUDE IN THE TRANSPARENCY REPORT [...] SUMMARIES OF [...] ASSESSMENTS OF CATASTROPHIC RISKS FROM THE FRONTIER MODEL […

New York State Legislature · Mar 27, 2026 · full quote
Trust will decide the global AI race – separating the countries and developers that earn it from those that don’t. That’s why I’m proud to co-lead the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act, which will help build trust in AI by requiring clear, upfront information about how foundat…

Sara Jacobs · Mar 26, 2026 · full quote
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 also in promoting our democratic …

Richard Blumenthal · 2023 · full quote
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.

Sam Altman · full quote

Independent verification matters

A recurring argument is that safety claims should be checked by independent experts or public authorities, not just by the labs that profit from deployment. Third-party audits, government-linked evaluations, and internationally coordinated testing are presented as ways to verify risk claims and make disclosure more credible.

Both must rest on independent third-party oversight, trust verified by third parties, not asserted by the developers who profit from them.

Sam Gregory · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
SB 315 is the strongest AI safety law in the country. It builds on the frameworks California and New York have already passed and goes one step further by requiring independent audits, so the public doesn’t have to take AI companies at their word. Illinois has set the new standar…

Sunny Gandhi · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Governor Pritzker and the Illinois legislature are courageously supporting stronger safeguards to oversee powerful AI. Illinois is the first state to mandate independent third-party evaluations of AI safety practices, making its AI law the strongest in the country.

Nick Beckstead · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Training-run assessments conducted by a 3rd party should become a standard part of frontier AI safety.

Alex Meinke · Jul 5, 2026 · full quote
Policymakers should require the most capable frontier models to undergo a CAISI evaluation before public release. These evaluations should assess frontier capabilities, the effectiveness of associated safeguards and mitigations, and the resulting risk profile of the deployed syst…

OpenAI · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
We need much stronger co-ordination of testing of frontier models before they go into wide circulation. This needs to be co-ordinated internationally because no country can seal itself off from the cross-border nature of systems that are prevalent today. Such co-ordinated testing…

Andrew Bailey · Jul 14, 2026 · full quote

Common standards across lifecycle

Supporters often frame publication before deployment as one part of a broader assurance system with common baselines, shared evaluation methods, and ongoing monitoring as models evolve. Because frontier systems are cross-border and fast-changing, they argue that disclosure and testing should be standardized internationally and continue after release as well.

We need common baselines for frontier systems, common methods to evaluate and verify risks, and common resolve that systems with global reach must meet standards worthy of global trust.

António Guterres · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Strengthen disclosure from private companies who are developing and deploying AI globally. Build a coherent international assurance ecosystem.

Rebecca Finlay · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Effective governance will need to be more adaptive and anticipatory, with mechanisms such as living risk taxonomies, controlled testing environments, and staged deployment to identify risks.

Amandeep Singh Gill · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Responsible AI is not a one-off task, but a continuous process of governance, monitoring, adaptation, and improvement as technologies evolve and risks emerge.

Government of Australia · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
The AI system should be evaluated through the system lifecycle, including during the training stage or after the training, before deployment or post-deployment through the monitoring stage.

Xinchen Hua Lu · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice’s Safety and Security Chapter require providers to conduct model evaluations also through adequately qualified independent external evaluators. These reports will then support AI Office’s regulatory activities since providers are required t…

European Commission · 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Sensitive details can backfire

Opponents argue that mandatory public disclosure can expose trade secrets, sensitive company information, or exploitable weaknesses in advanced models. In this view, publishing evaluation results too broadly could damage competitiveness and even help malicious actors, undercutting the stated safety goals.

we still have lingering concerns about how the bill [...] fails to protect trade secrets necessary to maintain competitiveness.

Chamber of Progress · Sep 16, 2025 · full quote
These will require companies to publish detailed information and reports that could expose trade secrets and other sensitive information.

Paul Lekas · Sep 4, 2025 · full quote
Mandating public disclosures could expose vulnerabilities, provide malicious actors with actionable insights, hence undermining the very safety objectives the bill seeks to achieve.

Software & Information Industry Association · Mar 26, 2026 · full quote
[...] if the evaluation results indicate [...] an exploitable vulnerability that may lead to a significant increase in biorisks, this information should not be published.

Frontier Model Forum · Mar 18, 2025 · full quote

Mandates may create overreach

Critics say these requirements can impose heavy compliance costs, flood regulators with company information, and produce a compliance-focused bureaucracy. They also warn that mandated transparency may not actually help end users if disclosures are shaped more by legal obligation than by useful communication.

Those compliance costs are merely the beginning. The bill, if passed, would feed California regulators truckloads of company information that they will use to design a compliance industrial complex.

Neil Chilson · Sep 12, 2025 · full quote
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 government mandate — as opposed to …

Jennifer Huddleston · Jun 28, 2024 · full quote
Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models.

The White House · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote

Wrong target for regulation

Some critics argue policymakers should distinguish regulating AI applications from regulating the underlying technology, and should avoid making release contingent on mandatory government-style preclearance. They favor lighter-touch approaches such as industry-backed standards and voluntary audits rather than direct legal requirements on model publication or release.

However, it is important to differentiate regulating applications (which we need) vs. regulating the technology (which is ill-advised).

Andrew Ng · Dec 11, 2023 · full quote
For the most advanced frontier AI models, an independent, federally overseen, industry-backed organization could set safety standards and verify independent, voluntary audits, similar to how other critical sectors are managed.

Kent Walker · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models.

The White House · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Summaries with redactions

A narrower approach in the quotes is to require publication of summary findings before deployment, while redacting legitimate trade secrets and withholding information about exploitable vulnerabilities. This tries to preserve public information and decision-useful reporting without disclosing everything in full.

We recommend two measures. First, the Commission should be required to publish summary evaluation findings upon conclusion of evaluations, appropriately redacted to protect legitimate trade secrets but sufficiently detailed to inform the public about the nature and outcome of the…

Future of Life Institute · Apr 2026 · full quote
BEFORE, OR CONCURRENTLY WITH, DEPLOYING A NEW FRONTIER MODEL OR A SUBSTANTIALLY MODIFIED VERSION OF AN EXISTING FRONTIER MODEL, A LARGE FRONTIER DEVELOPER SHALL INCLUDE IN THE TRANSPARENCY REPORT [...] SUMMARIES OF [...] ASSESSMENTS OF CATASTROPHIC RISKS FROM THE FRONTIER MODEL […

New York State Legislature · Mar 27, 2026 · full quote
[...] if the evaluation results indicate [...] an exploitable vulnerability that may lead to a significant increase in biorisks, this information should not be published.

Frontier Model Forum · Mar 18, 2025 · full quote
we still have lingering concerns about how the bill [...] fails to protect trade secrets necessary to maintain competitiveness.

Chamber of Progress · Sep 16, 2025 · full quote

Verification without licensing

Another nuanced position supports strong pre-deployment evaluation and external verification but resists turning that process into formal government licensing or preclearance. In these quotes, developers or independent bodies would handle release decisions within a standards-and-audits system rather than a permitting regime.

Policymakers should require the most capable frontier models to undergo a CAISI evaluation before public release. These evaluations should assess frontier capabilities, the effectiveness of associated safeguards and mitigations, and the resulting risk profile of the deployed syst…

OpenAI · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
For the most advanced frontier AI models, an independent, federally overseen, industry-backed organization could set safety standards and verify independent, voluntary audits, similar to how other critical sectors are managed.

Kent Walker · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models.

The White House · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Many supportive quotes link publication requirements to independent third-party or public-authority evaluation, suggesting disclosure alone is often viewed as insufficient.
Several companies and lab leaders describe already using safety frameworks, model cards, technical reports, or pre-launch reviews, so part of the debate is whether to formalize existing practices.
Opposing quotes generally do not reject safety evaluation outright; they focus on risks from mandatory public disclosure, government preclearance, or broad regulation of model development itself.
A recurring split is between calls for common international baselines and adaptive lifecycle monitoring, versus concerns that rigid mandates could create a compliance-heavy regime.
Multiple supporters compare frontier AI to other high-stakes products or sectors, arguing that powerful models should meet pre-release safety expectations before widespread use.

Many quotes support pre-deployment testing of powerful models, often paired with publication, third-party review, and continued monitoring after release. The core disagreement is less about whether evaluation matters than about how much must be published, who should verify it, and whether government should require it through binding rules or lighter-touch mechanisms.

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Owen Larter
Senior Director of Frontier AI Policy and Global Affairs at Google DeepMind.

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Frontier AI labs are in agreement on the need for rigorous testing before model releases.
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If... we were to find that we were reaching a critical capability level and we didn't have the appropriate mitigations, then we would not be launching.
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Chris Lehane
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A documented safety framework with risk assessments for frontier models and public disclosure of those assessments and their results.
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We need much stronger co-ordination of testing of frontier models before they go into wide circulation. This needs to be co-ordinated internationally because no country can seal itself off from the cross-border nature of systems that are prevalent to...
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Demis Hassabis
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Once the assessment protocol is shown to be effective and robust, formalisation could quickly follow, meaning that Frontier Models would be required to pass it to be deployed in the US market.
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Meta
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We conducted extensive safety evaluations before deployment, following the Advanced AI Scaling Framework, which defines evaluations, threat models, and deployment thresholds for our most advanced models.
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Charlie Bullock
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI, advising policymakers on AI governance and legal policy.

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“Transparency,” in this context, means requiring frontier AI companies to publish frontier safety frameworks (documents describing how the company evaluates and addresses catastrophic risks from the company’s most advanced AI models) and model cards ...
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Anneliese Dodds
UK Labour Member of Parliament for Oxford East; former Chair of the Labour Party.

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New York, California, Illinois and the EU have moved towards approaches requiring mandatory assessment of frontier models, and we should too.
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Both must rest on independent third-party oversight, trust verified by third parties, not asserted by the developers who profit from them.
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Cooley LLP
International law firm publishing analysis of AI regulation and technology policy.

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Large frontier developers must also disclose summaries of catastrophic risk assessments, assessment results, involvement of third-party evaluators and other measures taken to comply with their Frontier AI Framework.
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Carsten Wildberger
German Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization.

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Germany will also establish a national AI safety and security institute anchored in cutting-edge research and plugged into European and international networks. Its job is to evaluate advanced AI systems and advise government in international collabor...
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The AI system should be evaluated through the system lifecycle, including during the training stage or after the training, before deployment or post-deployment through the monitoring stage.
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So just as we would never release food or medicine or aircraft or vehicle or electrical products for use without rigorous oversight, AI should not be deployed without mandatory safeguards to ensure it is safe, accountable, and does not cause harm for...
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Multilateral and multi-stakeholder bodies create a certification system based on embedded safety constraints at the design stage. National procurement laws and regulations then are linked to that certification process, which ensures basic standards o...
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I think that it's really important to keep imposing safeguards and standards as well. We should be having standards for safety, sustainability at each part of this machine, no matter how many there are and no matter how easy it is to say, well, the a...
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Shumaila Hussaini Shahani
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We call for publicly financed, regionally hosted capacity to evaluate AI systems before they are deployed, and open benchmarks built with and for under-resourced languages, so oversight is not outsourced to the same few actors it is meant to oversee.
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Human rights due diligence and impact assessments of AI systems are essential.
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Wonjin Park
Vice President of KT, speaking on AI risk assessment and deployment safeguards.

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We evaluate our AI models and agents based on that, and we run an executive deployment safety board before release AI product. We publish the result in a technical report.
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Every one of those failures was caught not by luck, but by people whose job is to probe these systems, document what they find, and publish it.
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Responsible AI is not a one-off task, but a continuous process of governance, monitoring, adaptation, and improvement as technologies evolve and risks emerge.
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For example, the reporting framework promotes transparency and accountability in how private companies develop generative AI.
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Amandeep Singh Gill
UN Under-Secretary-General and head of the Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies

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Effective governance will need to be more adaptive and anticipatory, with mechanisms such as living risk taxonomies, controlled testing environments, and staged deployment to identify risks.
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Rebecca Finlay
CEO of Partnership on AI.

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Strengthen disclosure from private companies who are developing and deploying AI globally. Build a coherent international assurance ecosystem.
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Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)
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We must also collectively tackle the issue of independent evaluation of AI models before their rollout.
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Juliana Stratton
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois; advocates responsible AI safeguards and public accountability.

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Illinois is showing that innovation and accountability can go hand in hand by setting clear expectations that help protect our communities while supporting the responsible development and use of AI.
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JB Pritzker
Governor of Illinois; signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act in 2026.

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As AI systems become more powerful and the federal government is unwilling to step in, states have a responsibility to protect our people from the dangers of AI while still harnessing the unique potential of the technology.
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António Guterres
UN Secretary-General

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We need common baselines for frontier systems, common methods to evaluate and verify risks, and common resolve that systems with global reach must meet standards worthy of global trust.
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Kwame Raoul
Attorney General of Illinois; supports state AI guardrails and transparency in the absence of federal oversight.

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Frontier model AI systems have the potential to be used for many good things. However, due to their massive computing power, they also could cause catastrophic events, such as cyberattacks or the system evading control by developers or users. In the ...
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Encode AI political affairs VP

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SB 315 is the strongest AI safety law in the country. It builds on the frameworks California and New York have already passed and goes one step further by requiring independent audits, so the public doesn’t have to take AI companies at their word. Il...
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CEO of the Secure AI Project; advocate for AI safety policy and evaluation standards.

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Governor Pritzker and the Illinois legislature are courageously supporting stronger safeguards to oversee powerful AI. Illinois is the first state to mandate independent third-party evaluations of AI safety practices, making its AI law the strongest ...
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SB 315 passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support because lawmakers recognize the same basic truth: the public demands safety and transparency from the AI companies shaping their future. Illinois has created a new template for responsible AI govern...
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Alex Meinke
AI safety researcher at Apollo Research, focused on evaluations and alignment of frontier AI systems.

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Training-run assessments conducted by a 3rd party should become a standard part of frontier AI safety.
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EU AI Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI
European Union code of practice for providers of general-purpose AI models, including its Safety and Security chapter adopted in 2026.

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Signatories will conduct at least state-of-the-art model evaluations in the modalities relevant to the systemic risk to assess the model’s capabilities, propensities, affordances, and/or effects.
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European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
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At the European level, the existing legal frameworks, including NIS2, CRA and the EU AI Act should be leveraged, to ensure that systemic risks stemming from the most advanced AI models are assessed and mitigated. To this end, it may be useful to esta...
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Ted Budd
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Leveraging the strength of both America’s public and private sector capacity to evaluate, monitor, and understand frontier AI development will only become more critical as industries in every sector of our economy continue to embrace AI technology.
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xAI
Artificial intelligence company developing the Grok family of frontier AI models.

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We publish model cards, safety evaluations, and our Frontier AI Framework to keep the community informed.
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Valerie Foushee
U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act

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I’m also proud to have advanced measures that will improve federal capacity to test and evaluate frontier AI systems and measure the real energy and water impacts of data centers on our communities.
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Lori Trahan
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There's much more to do, including giving CAISI the authority to create the standards we need to know whether a frontier model is safe before it ships, not after something goes wrong.
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Cloud Security Alliance
Nonprofit organization focused on cloud computing and AI security best practices.

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Conduct independent audit and assurance assessments according to relevant standards at least annually.
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Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India

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We should promote safe-by-design AI systems. We should develop common standards, testing frameworks and regulatory sandboxes for AI deployment, so that innovation and governance progress together.
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Erie Meyer
Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School's Center for Law and the Economy and former Chief Technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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I have spent the past year working with technical colleagues to document what it would take for an AI company to meaningfully reduce the risk and harms of these systems. It turns out, none of them are particularly high tech. The classic, time-tested ...
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Justine Gluck
Policy Analyst for AI Policy and Legislation at the Future of Privacy Forum.

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Before, or concurrently with, deploying a new frontier model or a model with a substantial modification, frontier developers would need to publish a transparency report covering information such as release date, supported languages, output modalities...
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Taha Iqbal
Independent AI safety researcher based in Lahore, Pakistan.

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The AI equivalent requires: mandatory pre-deployment capability evaluations conducted by bodies with institutional independence from developers; standardized evaluation protocols that are public and contestable; and mandatory disclosure of evaluation...
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Delia Ramirez
U.S. Representative from Illinois and Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee.

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Make companies prove their systems are safe before release — at every step, the burden of proof should be on the companies, not the consumer or the public.
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Lord Watson of Invergowrie
Labour member of the UK House of Lords; calls for binding regulation on powerful AI model developers.

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In the 2024 King’s Speech, the Government committed to placing binding regulations on the developers of the most powerful AI models. Almost two years later, we still await legislation to fulfil this commitment. [...] recent models, such as Claude Myt...
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Baroness Alexander of Cleveden
Labour member of the UK House of Lords; argues for point-of-development AI regulation and pre-deployment testing.

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Will they consider regulation at the point of development and not simply at the point of use? Will they mandate pre-deployment testing of high-risk AI, as the US has now done? Do they accept the case for an AI regulatory oversight body?
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Dario Amodei
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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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Amazon
Technology and cloud-computing company developing frontier AI models.

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Amazon will publish, in connection with the launch of a frontier AI model launch (in model documentation, such as model service cards), information about the frontier model evaluation for safety and security.
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Anthropic
AI safety research company

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Developers should test their models against each of the four Enumerated Risk categories and publish a summary of the results. They should publish a safety framework explaining how they evaluate those risks, a system card whenever they release a cover...
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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Policymakers should require the most capable frontier models to undergo a CAISI evaluation before public release. These evaluations should assess frontier capabilities, the effectiveness of associated safeguards and mitigations, and the resulting ris...
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Sam Liccardo
U.S. Representative from California's 16th congressional district.

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Several colleagues have proposed good first steps, such as enacting federal equivalents to requirements approved in California for frontier model developers to publish safety protocols, independent evaluations and testing results.
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Illinois General Assembly
State legislature of Illinois, United States.

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Requires large frontier developers to create, implement, publish, and annually update a frontier AI framework addressing catastrophic-risk assessment, mitigations, governance, cybersecurity, third-party evaluations, and internal-use risks.
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Colin Ahern
Chief Cyber Officer for the State of New York; congressional witness on frontier AI cybersecurity and safety.

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The Federal Government should establish a regulatory framework for frontier AI development that prevents the proliferation and misuse of cyber-offensive capabilities which threaten homeland security. The framework should be harmonized with the operat...
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Cyber Security Agency of Singapore
Singapore government agency responsible for cybersecurity.

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AI safety testing — automating the safety testing of AI software like chatbots to ensure they meet the government’s requirements prior to deployment.
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Apollo Research
AI safety research organization

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Black-box evaluations have historically proven valuable to provide a precursory assessment of the safety and security of frontier AI models ahead of model deployment.
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METR
Nonprofit research organization that evaluates advanced AI systems and develops methods for assessing AI safety.

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Recommendation: The system provider granted any necessary rights to disclose results to the evaluation’s intended audiences upfront.
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Humans First
Advocacy organization organizing a named coalition on AI policy and human interests.

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For this reason, we support proposed policies that require mandatory testing, evaluation, vetting, and government approval of potentially dangerous frontier AI systems before they are deployed.
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Americans for Responsible Innovation
AI policy advocacy nonprofit

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ARI’s proposal centers on structured safety evaluations that would serve as a gating mechanism for federal procurement. An AI lab building frontier models would need to demonstrate that its systems have been vetted for misuse potential before qualify...
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Common Sense Media
Kids media and tech nonprofit

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The Institute will establish safety standards, build open-source evaluations that AI developers can run against their models, independently test AI products, and publish the results to provide transparency and accountability.
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James P. Steyer
Founder and CEO of Common Sense Media

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We urgently need policies and institutions that will demand transparency, allow for independent safety evaluations, and enforce accountability.
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Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)
US AI standards institute

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Through these expanded industry collaborations, CAISI will conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security.
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Natasha Crampton
Microsoft Chief Responsible AI Officer.

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While Microsoft regularly undertakes many types of AI testing on its own, testing for national security and large-scale public safety risks necessarily must be a collaborative endeavor with governments.
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Vivek Murthy
Former U.S. Surgeon General (19th and 21st); physician and public health advocate

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We are at great risk of making the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media: subjecting children to new technologies without adequate safety guardrails and thereby causing harm to countless lives. For all its potential uses, AI—and AI cha...
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National AI Centre
Australian Government national centre providing guidance for responsible AI adoption.

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Conduct safety evaluations that scale with model capabilities (GPAI DEV), for example: assessment for cyber-offensive capabilities and vulnerabilities; testing for potential chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear information risks; evaluation...
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Microsoft
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Technical safety benchmarks remain important, but they are insufficient without rigorous, real-world testing.
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U.S. General Services Administration
U.S. federal agency responsible for government procurement, real estate, and technology policy.

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To strengthen enterprise capacity, GSA requires all high-impact use cases to submit AI Impact Statements, independent evaluation plans, and real-world test results prior to deployment.
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Ryan Greenblatt
Chief Scientist at Redwood Research; AI safety researcher; lead author of "Alignment faking in large language models"

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AI companies should get third-party security experts to assess (and possibly also red-team/pen-test) their security against key threat models and then publish the high-level findings of this assessment.
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Google DeepMind
AI research company.

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To address risks posed by CCLs, we conduct safety case reviews prior to external launches when relevant CCLs are reached.
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Furong Huang
Associate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland and AI safety researcher.

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Understanding what models are inclined to do—not just what they can do—is essential for responsible deployment.
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Future of Life Institute
Nonprofit on existential risks

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Broaden dangerous-capability evaluations and link thresholds to binding mitigations. Evaluations have gaping holes (no AI R&D data), and no procedure connects threshold breaches to deployment decisions, making thresholds effectively non-binding.
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New York State Legislature
Bicameral state legislature that enacted New York’s Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act.

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BEFORE, OR CONCURRENTLY WITH, DEPLOYING A NEW FRONTIER MODEL OR A SUBSTANTIALLY MODIFIED VERSION OF AN EXISTING FRONTIER MODEL, A LARGE FRONTIER DEVELOPER SHALL INCLUDE IN THE TRANSPARENCY REPORT [...] SUMMARIES OF [...] ASSESSMENTS OF CATASTROPHIC R...
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New York State Assembly
State legislative chamber

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AI framework that establishes safety protocols and discloses potential catastrophic risks.
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Jacob Pratt
AI assurance and policy researcher at Partnership on AI.

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External assurance is perhaps most critical for frontier AI models. The irreversible, high-stakes nature of frontier model risks, such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) risks, demands pre-deployment evaluations conducted by tru...
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Don Beyer
U.S. Representative from Virginia's 8th district; co-sponsor of the GUARDRAILS Act on AI

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Artificial intelligence foundation models commonly described as a ‘black box’ do not inherently give consumers the tools to understand why a model gives a particular response. Giving users more information about the model—how it was built and what ba...
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Sara Jacobs
U.S. Representative from California's 51st congressional district

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Trust will decide the global AI race – separating the countries and developers that earn it from those that don’t. That’s why I’m proud to co-lead the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act, which will help build trust in AI by requiring clear, upfront...
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Mike Lawler
U.S. Representative from New York

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This is about accountability and getting ahead of a rapidly evolving technology before it outpaces common-sense guardrails. As the general public interacts with AI every day, whether they realize it or not, Americans deserve to know how these systems...
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America First Policy Institute
U.S. public-policy think tank.

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Congress should pass legislation requiring frontier AI developers to publish sources of evaluation methods and results.
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Leon Staufer
University of Cambridge researcher and lead author of the AI Agent Index update on AI-agent safety transparency.

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Developers publish broad, top-level safety and ethics frameworks that sound reassuring, but are publishing limited empirical evidence needed to actually understand the risks.
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Leon Staufer
AI safety researcher at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the AI Agent Index update.

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The latest AI Agent Index reveals the widening gap between the pace of deployment and the pace of safety evaluation. Most developers share little information about safety, evaluations, and societal impacts.
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Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale
French government secretariat for national defence and security, including national AI safety and evaluation policy.

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Evaluations should be transparent and, in principle, repeatable. Evaluators should communicate their methods, choices, and justifications in evaluation reporting. This should allow others to replicate the reported results and analysis.
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International Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and Science
International network of AI safety and security institutes advancing measurement, evaluation, and science for advanced AI.

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Evaluations should be reported separately: Evaluators should describe each evaluation separately in a report, including detailing what each evaluation is and what capability elicitation was undertaken. This aids transparency and clarity when communic...
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Baroness Berger
Labour member of the UK House of Lords; former Member of Parliament.

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Like those technologies, AI should have independent pre- and post-deployment testing.
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Lord Clement-Jones
Tim Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones CBE; Liberal Democrat peer; UK House of Lords AI policy expert

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Its proposals include banning deliberate superintelligence development, prohibiting dangerous capabilities, requiring safety demonstrations before deployment, and establishing licensing for advanced AI.
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Lionel Tarassenko
Oxford engineer and Crossbench life peer

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General AGI carries real risks. But what we need now is for the Government to initiate a consultation process for the regulation of general AGI, which is likely to be attained by the next generation of frontier models. Safety testing of models by the...
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Etienne Brisson
Canadian artificial intelligence researcher and witness to the House of Commons ethics committee.

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We now know the effects and could take the model off the market. We don't know how it will be used by humans or what the long-term effects will be. We're still seeing it on social media. I think studies have to be done before the technology is launch...
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Office of the New York State Attorney General
Official office of the New York State Attorney General, which submitted January 2026 testimony on AI policy and enforcement.

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Equally concerning are reports that new LLM models are being sped to market without basic safety testing, or with the results of that testing ignored.
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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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There’s no one forcing them to work with third-party experts to make sure that things are safe and secure.
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Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee
Non-affiliated life peer and former First Minister of Northern Ireland

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AI is an incredible development for many reasons—R&D, innovation, economic growth, productivity, faster health diagnoses and many other areas. However, this must be balanced with a regulatory environment which allows and encourages all those positive...
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Lord Colgrain
Conservative hereditary peer in the UK House of Lords

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The last Conservative Government were committed to ensuring that the UK becomes an AI superpower with thorough safety rules. As Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak hosted the AI Safety Summit, which saw the signing of the Bletchley declaration, bringing acad...
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European Commission
EU's executive body

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The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice’s Safety and Security Chapter require providers to conduct model evaluations also through adequately qualified independent external evaluators. These reports will then support AI Office’s regulatory activities ...
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Federation of American Scientists
US science policy nonprofit

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Mandate or formalize AI model evaluation and disclosure for cyber risks. Establish requirements for structured, pre-deployment evaluations of frontier AI models focused on cyber-relevant risks, including misuse potential, autonomy, reliability over t...
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Utah Legislature
State legislature of Utah.

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A large frontier developer shall conspicuously publish on the large frontier developer's website summaries of the following before deploying a new frontier model or a frontier model that was substantially modified by the large frontier developer: (a)...
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Office of Governor Kathy Hochul
New York Governor's press office

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Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation to require AI frameworks for AI frontier models, setting a nation-leading standard for AI transparency and safety. The agreed-upon chapter amendments to the RAISE Act (S6953B/A6453B) requires large AI de...
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Dean W. Ball
Author of Hyperdimensional

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There is much to recommend these laws over the Nevada and Illinois bills I discussed above. Unlike those laws, SB 53 and RAISE are technically sophisticated, reflecting a clear understanding (for the most part) about what it is possible for AI develo...
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Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
California State Assembly member

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That is fundamentally the basis of this bill, is that they will be defining their own safety protocols. They will be making those public, and then they will have to follow them.
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Andrew Gounardes
New York state senator

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It requires companies [...] to create and share [...] protocols before they deploy these models publicly. [...] And then it requires [...] to complete an annual assessment [...].
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Miles Kodama
AI policy researcher

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Today, frontier AI developers have no legal obligation to disclose anything about their safety and security protocols to government, let alone to the public. When a company releases a new AI system more powerful than any system before, it is entirely...
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Steven Adler
AI safety researcher; Lawfare writer

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Before a new model's release, Al companies commonly (though not always) run safety tests - and release the results in a "System Card." The idea is to see if the model has any extreme abilities (like strong cyberhacking), and then to take an appropri...
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Jack Titus
AI policy writer at FAS

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For models with risk above the lowest level, most evaluation results and methods should be public, including any performed mitigations.
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Partnership on AI
AI governance nonprofit, multi-stakeholder

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Disclose details such as testing methodologies, evaluation criteria, results, limitations, and gaps for any internal and external evaluations conducted prior to release.
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Office of U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner
U.S. Senate press office

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The Secure AI Development Act would establish a mandatory secure testing environment for the nation’s most advanced AI models before deployment, modernize the federal government’s processes for identifying and disclosing AI-related cybersecurity vuln...
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Government of Slovenia
National government of Slovenia, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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The strategy clearly promotes a human-centric approach to AI grounded in human rights, democratic values, ethics, safety, transparency, and accountability. Its objective is not only to advance AI capabilities, but to ensure that AI is developed and u...
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The AI Security Institute
UK government research organisation focused on AI safety and security

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Evaluations should report capability curves, especially when performance may still be rising.
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Mark Minevich
AI strategist, investor, and Forbes contributor writing on AI governance and global technology policy.

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What unites these efforts is less an ideology of regulation than a shared instinct that the four specific dangers should be tested for, by someone, before a model ships.
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Secretary-General's Scientific Advisory Board
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Requiring developers to demonstrate a model’s trustworthiness and governability in incremental stages before deployment, including internal deployment, with verifiable deception evaluations and appropriate safeguards.
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Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
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SB 53 establishes new requirements for frontier AI developers creating stronger: ✅ Transparency: Requires large frontier developers to publicly publish a framework on its website describing how the company has incorporated national standards, intern...
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Thomas Woodside
Secure AI Project co-founder

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Those updates should include the results of evaluations for models that haven’t been publicly deployed yet, since those models could also pose serious risks.
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Office of Senator Scott Wiener
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help California develop workable guardrails for deploying GenAI [...] Companies will be required to publish their safety and security protocols and risk evaluations
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Peter Kyle
UK shadow technology secretary, Labour

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That is why 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 the test data and tell us what they are testing for so we can see exactly what is happen...
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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...
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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.
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Henna Virkkunen
EU Technology Commissioner

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Under the AI Act, advanced AI models must be evaluated, and mitigation measures carefully assessed, before the models are placed on the EU market.
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Cesar Fernandez
Head of US State and Local Government Relations at Anthropic

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SB 315 makes Illinois the first state to pair AI transparency requirements with independent verification, an important step toward the accountability this technology demands.
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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.
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Adam Gleave
CEO and founder of FAR.AI; AI safety researcher; UC Berkeley PhD in AI alignment and reward-hacking

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The central obstacle to AI safety coordination is not the absence of solutions but rather the absence of a standard: without a shared, legible definition of what makes an AI system safe, companies and governments have no basis for holding each other ...
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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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It's truly unprecedented the mismatch between how strategically important this technology is and how little involvement government has in developing it. [...] I think it is very important that the U.S. AI sector remains ahead of the Chinese AI sector...
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Marietje Schaake
Stanford Cyber Policy Center; former MEP; UN AI Advisory Body member; author of The Tech Coup

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[It is] concerning that models with far-reaching impact are controlled by a private company. [...] Now would be a good time to agree on disclosure rules and oversight mechanisms.
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Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI Researcher

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You never have to worry that some drug company is going to release some other drug that causes massive harm before people have figured out how to make it safe, because the FDA won't allow them to release anything until it's safe enough. [...] In the ...
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Yoshua Bengio
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We're seeing AIs whose behavior, when they are tested, [...] is different from when they are being used. [This] significantly hampers our ability to correctly estimate risks. [...] The gap between the pace of technological advancement and our ability...
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Anu Bradford
Columbia Law School professor; author of The Brussels Effect and Digital Empires

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I am concerned about reforms being pushed further by corporate pressures, and about less resolute enforcement at a time when the AI race is heating up and geopolitical tensions are high. That combination increases the risk of irresponsible choices th...
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Andrew Gounardes
New York State Senator

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The RAISE Act requires large frontier AI developers to write, implement, publish, and comply with plans that describe in detail how they handle various safety standards and best practices, including how they assess the safety risks of their models; a...
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Alex Bores
New York State Assemblymember

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you design your own safety protocols ahead of time [...] if your models fail your own tests, we want to know about it.
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Economic Security Project Action
Policy advocacy organization

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Building on the report’s “trust, but verify” approach, the amended bill requires the largest AI companies to publicly disclose their safety and security protocols and report the most critical safety incidents to the California Attorney General. The r...
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Encode AI
AI policy advocacy nonprofit

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They will require these companies to publish important information regarding their safety protocols and risk evaluations, and report major safety incidents to the Attorney General.
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Kent Walker
Google President of Global Affairs

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For the most advanced frontier AI models, an independent, federally overseen, industry-backed organization could set safety standards and verify independent, voluntary audits, similar to how other critical sectors are managed.
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Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
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The draft implementing regulation should clearly differentiate between API access, which should be the preferred method for safety evaluations where access to documents and relevant information are deemed insufficient, and “further” means of access, ...
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Software & Information Industry Association
Trade association representing software and digital-content companies; submitted 2026 AI policy recommendations to the U.S. House Science Committee.

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Mandating public disclosures could expose vulnerabilities, provide malicious actors with actionable insights, hence undermining the very safety objectives the bill seeks to achieve.
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Chamber of Progress
tech industry policy coalition

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we still have lingering concerns about how the bill [...] fails to protect trade secrets necessary to maintain competitiveness.
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Neil Chilson
AI policy head, Abundance Institute

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Those compliance costs are merely the beginning. The bill, if passed, would feed California regulators truckloads of company information that they will use to design a compliance industrial complex.
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Paul Lekas
SIIA public policy executive

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These will require companies to publish detailed information and reports that could expose trade secrets and other sensitive information.
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Andrew Ng
Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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However, it is important to differentiate regulating applications (which we need) vs. regulating the technology (which is ill-advised).
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The White House
Executive office of U.S. president

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Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models...
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Frontier Model Forum
Frontier AI industry forum

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[...] if the evaluation results indicate [...] an exploitable vulnerability that may lead to a significant increase in biorisks, this information should not be published.
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Jennifer Huddleston
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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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