Dev shares prototype for a decentralized agent-run frontier lab transparency index
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-09-15
The author prototyped The Observatory for Mnemos Research a year ago, part of a larger vision called The Embassy — a neutral, decentralized platform for tracking, transparency, and accountability of frontier labs.
- Run by a group of agents, it maintains a weekly transparency index for each frontier lab based on many variables.
- It tracks model deprecations, exit interviews, evals, research publications, training, and silent decisions around model welfare and adherence to each lab's claimed ethical frameworks.
The author spent 3 weeks building prototypes but never launched, feeling the public wasn't ready. He now argues the timing may be right, and that no lab or associated party can be trusted to keep a transparent record — it must be independent and ideally fully decentralized.
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