Helen Toner

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

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Location: United States

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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems

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And they should have to let in external AI auditors to scrutinize their work so that the companies aren't just grading their own homework. AI Verified source (2024)

added 8mo ago
Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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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... more AI Verified source (2026)

added 1mo ago
Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs to a designated national or international authority

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Most of the information that is of greatest interest from a national security and public interest perspective would not damage competitiveness if disclosed appropriately. [...] The U.S. government can also use existing authorities, such as the Defens... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

added 4d ago