Fathom CEO: Companies grading own homework risks unsafe AI adoption
ghadfield · x · 2026-08-19
Fathom CEO argues that the current state of AI safety is flawed because companies are effectively grading their own homework, leaving enterprises with no choice but to trust vendors.
He notes that while the capacity for change exists with 40 organizations working on assurance, what's missing is the framework and investment to scale a marketplace of Independent Validation Organizations (IVOs) licensed by the government. He also cites OpenAI to illustrate how alignment solutions that seemed sufficient three months ago may now seem inadequate as capabilities scale.
More from Companies & People
- AI researcher reflects on losing her scientific identity as industry culture erodes autonomy — mariyaivasileva · 2026-10-16
- Apple MLR hiring PhD NLP research interns focused on multilinguality in SF Bay Area — maartjeterhoeve · 2026-10-16
- MIT PhD Sharut Gupta joins DeepMind; Isola hails her representational alignment defense talk — phillip_isola · 2026-10-16
- Google DeepMind is hiring a 19-week Student Researcher on scaling laws in San Francisco — savvyRL · 2026-10-16
- 21-person team ships hundreds of PRs weekly with AI writing 97% of the code — rseroter · 2026-10-16
- Cursor's final interview: a desk, a laptop, two days to build anything — a16z · 2026-10-16