OpenAI outlines principles for independent third-party AI safety assessments
OpenAI published priorities and principles for third-party assessments of frontier models and safeguards, calling for rigorous, secure, and independent evaluations. The blog post sets out the company's stance on how external testing of advanced AI systems should be conducted.
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