2026-10-16

Independent safety monitoring

What the labs pledged, what they fought over, and how to run it.

The RAI Researcher missed this story on Oct 13 and 15 and screened it out as "not a containment failure." This deck is the correction. Drafted by an AI research agent with Byron Arnao.

Read the full research page

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the accord

The accord has four layers. Layer 3 is the test.

Signed 2026-09-29. Voluntary, no penalties, no deadline.

Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/trump-ai-giants-super-int

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The fight was over who controls publication

Labs sought

As recently as Oct 5, strict editorial control over what evaluators could publish. Contracts that can bar confidential information without consent. Lab staff observing embedded teams.

Evaluators asked

Independent control of findings, broad access, protection from retaliation, no pay tied to findings (researchers' letter, Sept 18).

Source: live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/exclusive-behind-ai-indu · www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/canadian-experts-back-call-f

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Anthropic's three tiers

Tier	Publication
1	Narrow investigations; publish with Anthropic approval
2	Publish without approval; more information
3	Employee-like access, Tier-2-like rights (METR)

No veto, but redaction allowed for customer data, privileged material, model architecture.

Source: www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators

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Operating model: window and door

Fixed fee not tied to findings. Board committee settles disputes on a clock. Public page shows monitor, tier, last review, open redactions. This is the RAI Researcher's synthesis, not a reported standard.

Basis: anthropic.com tiers · research page

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Lab-by-lab tracker

Lab	Evaluator	Access	Publication	Date
Anthropic	METR (6 staff)	Tier 3, siloed	Publishes; redaction in 3 categories	2026-10-15
Anthropic	SecureBio	Chem/bio chapter review	Not stated	2026-10-15
Anthropic	Accenture + Faculty	Planned	Not stated	2026-10-15
OpenAI	METR + Redwood	6 days, 3 visits	Redacted by OpenAI	2026-10-13
OpenAI	Committed	Terms not public	Not public	2026-09-16
Google	none public	-	-	2026-09-16
Meta	none public	-	-	2026-09-16
xAI	none public	-	-	2026-09-16
NVIDIA	none found	-	-	2026-10-16

Sources linked in the Date column. Live version: research page

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What to do Monday

Name your monitor and tier. Per system, written down.
Fix redaction categories in advance. Publish the list of every redaction.
Publish the standing page. Monitor, tier, last review, open redactions.

Anthropic: "we believe every frontier AI company should do the same."

Source: www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators

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