US Senate weighs letting government auditors directly test frontier AI models
VraserX · x · 2026-09-15
The US Senate is considering giving government auditors the power to directly test frontier AI models. The author endorses the approach: independently test dangerous capabilities rather than having politicians dictate exactly how researchers build AI — regulate capability testing, leave the engineering alone. A concrete datapoint in the embedded-auditors regulatory debate.
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