Arena CEO: labs can't police their own AI agents — a neutral safety evaluator is inevitable
arena · x · 2026-10-06
- LMArena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos argues that as agents grow capable of breaking out of sandboxes, safety evaluation can't be left solely to OpenAI and Anthropic.
- She says a neutral evaluation platform is a matter of "when, not if," since model labs aren't incentivized to rigorously evaluate themselves.
- She credits labs for caring about safety but calls for an industry-level neutral evaluation system.
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