Stanford's Rishi Bommasani flags gaps in AI auditor conflict-of-interest rules (AEF-1)
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-09-13
- Stanford CRFM's Rishi Bommasani responds to concerns that a METR investigator for the OpenAI incident is married to an OpenAI board member, diving into AI auditor conduct standards.
- He notes Paul wasn't an OpenAI board member at the time of the investigation, and spousal recusal is covered under AEF-1 — a framework used by METR and other frontier evaluators, directly inspired by accounting's PCAOB.
- But he flags a potential gap: AEF-1 clause 2.5's spousal recusal covers only financial interests, while 2.4 covers broader conflicts including board membership — their interplay may be problematic in this case.
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