New Project APE paper says policy evaluation now hinges on automating verification
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-22
A new paper argues verification is the bottleneck for autonomous policy evaluation
Project APE’s update introduces “Verifying the Verifiers: Towards Autonomous Policy Evaluation” with Olaf Willner.
The paper’s premise is that:
- plausible research generation is becoming cheap
- verification is now the key bottleneck
- the next question is whether verification itself can be automated reliably and cheaply
The project aims to build a system that can learn to evaluate policies autonomously, potentially scaling policy analysis across many countries.
Related event: Project APE Evaluates LLMs as Autonomous Research Error Verifiers(5 posts)→
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