Arguing third-party model audits would slow frontier labs the most
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-09-13
In a debate with Eric Mitchell over model verification and independence requirements, Josh Purtell argues that a neolab achieving a breakthrough would have to hand its secrets to third parties who would inevitably leak, letting OpenAI and Anthropic copy it by the next morning — killing the neolab.
Mitchell responds that with a reasonable definition of independence, the friction from such audits should scale with model capability, slowing frontier labs the most.
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