Anthropic and OpenAI need truly independent safety evaluators, experts say in public letter
100+ AI experts demand independence: foundation labs can't grade their own safety work anymore.
Why it matters
Safety evaluation credibility is becoming a competitive and regulatory flashpoint. Labs self-evaluating their models creates conflicts of interest that practitioners and regulators are now refusing to accept—this could reshape how frontier capability claims get validated.
The key facts
9 to knowCoalition of 100+ AI experts signed public letter
Target: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other foundation model labs
Core demand: independent and transparent safety evaluations
Published Sept 18, 2026 on CNBC
Implication: self-evaluation by labs is no longer credible to expert consensus
Targets Anthropic, OpenAI, and other foundation model labs
Core demand: independent safety evaluators, not lab-conducted evals
Published September 18, 2026
Governance/transparency issue tied to frontier model releases
Go to the source
CNBC Technologycnbc.com
Publisher excerpt: A coalition of over 100 AI experts are urging independence and transparency from Anthropic, OpenAI and other foundation model labs to conduct evaluations.