Clanker Safety Institute launches to audit frontier labs' evaluator-access pledges
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-15
After Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" pledge and Sam Altman's matching commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, the Clanker Safety Institute launched as an independent auditor built for that access. Staffed by infra/security/ops engineers, it audits deployment controls (isolation, default-deny egress, least privilege, change control) alongside model capabilities and safety behavior. Labs pay as for a pentest; CSI brings its own tooling, discloses interests, and publishes regardless of results — arguing verified controls buy certainty where fixed slowdowns only buy time.
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