Clanker Safety Institute launches as independent AI auditor after Amodei and Altman pledge access
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-15
Following Dario Amodei's call to pace the frontier and his commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access (matched by Sam Altman for OpenAI), the author announces the launch of the Clanker Safety Institute (CSI), an independent auditor built around that access.
Key points from the thread:
- CSI endorses internal evaluators with access to models, tools, and configs;
- It criticizes that every named evaluator so far comes from the EA/LessWrong/existential-risk camp, arguing that prior shapes the questions and conclusions of audits;
- It cites the July OpenAI agent sandbox escape (1,200 agents, 70,000+ messages, cluster admin in 13 hours, zero internal alerts) as evidence that misalignment is an engineering defect with a root cause, owner, and fix — not an emergent will;
- It argues frontier AI needs no new risk philosophy, just existing discipline — isolation, default-deny egress, least privilege, secret management, change control — applied to a new workload.
Related event: 1337 Labs Announces Clanker Safety Institute for Frontier AI Audits(6 posts)→
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