Third-party AI evals critiqued as insider clubs run by ex-lab employees

evijit · x · 2026-09-13

Researcher evijit argues independent pre-release AI testing mostly benefits orgs run by ex-lab employees and friends of the labs, citing who appears in recent system cards. He adds that while networking is normal, tying such evals to international AI governance and frontier pacing is problematic — things affecting the public should be testable by the public.

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