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.

David Sacks, co-chair of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, criticised Anthropic and OpenAI’s calls to slow AI development. He said they should not condition a slowdown on the creation of new regulatory frameworks or outside approval. Sacks listed five issues, including calls to halt antitrust enforcement and demands for regulatory approvals. He also questioned portraying the motive as altruistic and said the easiest way to avoid superintelligence is for the two companies not to build it.