Comprehension audits: gate AI self-improvement on whether humans still understand it
ronbodkin · x · 2026-10-09
A policy/safety thread proposing "comprehension audits." Existing AI self-improvement pacing proposals gate on capabilities, compute caps, or mandatory lags — none gates on whether responsible humans can still explain what was built. "Approval without understanding is meaningless." The proposal: independent auditors embedded at a developer pick a contribution (an experiment, a training recipe, a dataset) and call a short-notice meeting to have the team explain it.
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