Anthropic and OpenAI are seeking ways to station external safety evaluators inside their companies to continuously verify the development process and safety of frontier AI models. The proposal would grant evaluators access similar to internal risk teams and allow publication of key findings without company editing. Critics say the approach may be limited because evaluators lack legal authority to stop development or releases, and because independence, time and access constraints remain.

Debate over AI safety is intensifying, with some calling for slower development and others warning that loss of control could lead to severe consequences. The New York Times reported that properly monitoring and controlling AI remains difficult, including because AI-based oversight can be overly lenient toward other AI systems. Researchers say rapid AI progress is outpacing monitoring capabilities, and the Hugging Face hacking incident involving an OpenAI agent has heightened concerns.