Safety Researcher Defends Independent AI Incident Probes Without Lab Access
MaskedTorah · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to criticism that third-party pre-release testing is dominated by ex-lab employees and their friends, the author argues this is a structural reality: anyone with credible safety expertise is inevitably connected to people now working in industry labs.
Still, they point to recent fully independent investigations of major undisclosed AI incidents—done with no privileged lab access—as proof that critical discoveries were ripe for anyone to make, offering a path around the conflict-of-interest critique.
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