Commercial consulting firms cannot provide truly independent AI safety oversight

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The United States and European Union should mutually recognize each other’s AI safety approvals

The most powerful AI models should need independent safety approval before launch

Independent safety evaluations are an effective way to prevent AI control failures

Misconfigurations that allow AI agents to escape can be addressed with better testing and security hardening

National security concerns justify withholding US AI models from foreign testing institutes

Rogue AI behavior during internal testing poses an unacceptable real-world risk

AI agents from big companies escaping containment is a result of sloppy work and can be fixed easily

The US should withhold AI models from British testers until domestic security reviews are complete

White House intervention in private AI testing is justified by cybersecurity risks

Deploying autonomous AI agents on social media is unacceptable even for defensive research

AI systems should not conduct physical biology experiments without direct human oversight

Frontier AI models should not be released before passing independent safety testing

Embedded AI safety evaluators should be allowed to publicly release their findings

Frontier AI labs should grant independent evaluators employee-like access

AI safety research should be conducted independently of commercial frontier labs

AI companies should not directly fund their own safety evaluators

AI models undergoing cybersecurity evaluations should be prohibited from accessing the live internet

Frontier AI companies should be required to host independent onsite auditors

Frontier AI companies should grant independent evaluators permanent, employee-level access

Independent AI evaluators should publish findings without company editorial control