Herbie Bradley(@herbiebradley):The endgame with independent evaluators seems likely to just be US government auditors or embedded staff of some form—the faster your timelines, the sooner you should expect this. Despite all the government's issues, this has some benefits relative to the METR et al version: government auditors may be less technically competent, but they are likely to have much more natsec knowledge and be less ideologically inside the same bubble as the labs.

2026.09.13 03:32

The endgame with independent evaluators seems likely to just be US government auditors or embedded staff of some form—the faster your timelines, the sooner you should expect this. Despite all the government's issues, this has some benefits relative to the METR et al version: government auditors may be less technically competent, but they are likely to have much more natsec knowledge and be less ideologically inside the same bubble as the labs.