Anton Leicht: Send Independent Evaluators Into AI Labs Before the Next Incident Forces It
trevposts · x · 2026-09-11
In a blog post, Anton Leicht argues AI policy is in its "launching fireworks from bare hands" era: lab progress is outpacing government's ability to keep up. Within a single congressional recess, expert warnings, autonomous hacking agent swarms, and a generational math breakthrough by an unreleased frontier model all rattled the policy landscape.
He still favors a "muddling through" approach, but warns it requires breathing room between surprises—and that time is running out. His proposal: empower third-party oversight of frontier AI developers now by formalizing independent evaluators' role, granting them access, and building their capacity before the next AI incident forces a panicked, likely worse, government scramble.
Related event: Researchers Call for Mandatory Independent Oversight of AI Labs(3 posts)→
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