"Security theater": dev mocks METR/AISI-style independent AI safety evaluators
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-14
Zack Korman mocked the AI safety community's push for "independent evaluators" like METR and AISI by posting the Wikipedia definition of "security theater" — measures that provide the feeling of improved security while doing little to achieve it — implying third-party model evals are largely performative.
A pointed entry in the ongoing debate over whether independent safety evaluations actually work.
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