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The process of independent model evaluation sits at the center of AI governance.
A federal testing apparatus is supposed to assess capability and safety properties across frontier models, providing the signal that policymakers need to set rules with some grounding in what the technology actually does.
OpenAI has appointed a senior US official from that testing apparatus to its board, a move that has drawn accusations of regulatory capture against the major AI laboratories.
The revolving door Model testing agencies occupy a specific position in the AI governance stack. They set evaluation criteria and measure safety and capability claims against those criteria.
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