Academics Urge NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML to Embrace AI Audit Papers to Grow Third-Party Auditors

dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-09-16

A proposal circulating on X argues that top AI conferences like NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML should encourage papers that audit AI systems and related artifacts such as risk reports and system cards. This would incentivize more academics to produce high-quality audits and help build an ecosystem of third-party AI auditors. The thread was amplified by former DeepMind policy lead dhadfieldmenell.

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