Third-Party Embedded Evaluators Went From Fringe to Consensus in 18 Months
deanwball · x · 2026-09-30
Policy commentator Dean Ball observes that third-party embedded evaluators, now a pillar of frontier AI policy, were barely on Americans' radars 18 months ago and have since become near-consensus.
He recalls the idea once sitting at the fringes: not long ago, even some organizations now seen as candidate evaluators questioned why they'd want to be deputized that way when he pitched them on it.
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