We'll know safety evals are the new gold rush when Stanford undergrads drop out to be embedded evaluators
aryaman2020 · x · 2026-09-20
Following up on his own observation about a wave of safety-eval startups, the author jokes: we'll know it's truly analogous to the RL-environment gold rush when Stanford undergrads start dropping out to become embedded evaluators at frontier labs.
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