Proposed 'comprehension audits': independent auditors grill teams on AI training recipes
ronbodkin · x · 2026-10-09
The author proposes 'comprehension audits': independent auditors embedded at a developer pick a contribution — a finished experiment, a new training recipe, a new dataset — and call a short-notice meeting. The responsible team explains what it does, how it works and its dependencies (not model internals) in a blameless, thesis-defense-style meeting, with understanding graded.
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