Anthropic and OpenAI need truly independent safety evaluators, experts say in public letter

Over 100 AI experts are calling for truly independent safety evaluators to test frontier models (cutting-edge AI systems), warning they lack the resources and protections needed to do their jobs effectively. The group wants foundation model providers (companies like Anthropic and OpenAI that build large AI systems) to guarantee that third-party evaluators have scientific objectivity, transparency, independence, and protection from retaliation while auditing AI development.