Major frontier AI companies face growing scrutiny over independence of safety evaluators, with more than 100 researchers warning that embedded assessment teams lack sufficient protections from corporate influence. In mid-September 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a proposal for "embedded independent evaluators"—third-party assessment teams given permanent, employee-level access to company systems to verify adherence to safety measures and report incidents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly endorsed the approach, committing his company to the same model.
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