Sriram Krishnan calls for funding a distributed ecosystem of independent AI evaluators
asusarla · x · 2026-09-14
Sriram Krishnan argues AI model evaluation shouldn't rest on a single authority: a distributed ecosystem of independent evaluators with diverse skill sets is healthier, and several such efforts deserve funding. Gary Marcus quote-posted in full agreement: "we need many independent evaluators, not one." The exchange highlights growing concern that benchmarks and evals are too centralized and easily influenced by the labs being evaluated.
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