Letting AI labs run their own benchmarks is like students proctoring their own SATs

MattPerault · x · 2026-08-19

Matt Perault relays Rayan Krishnan's analogy: if a student took the SAT at home, proctored it themselves, and reported their own score, how much would you trust it? That, he argues, is what happens when model developers run their own benchmark test sets — underscoring the need for independent evaluation.

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