[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign

תקציר מקורי באנגליתWe last highlighted the pacing debate in July when Pacing the Frontier first emerged: And it seems that we’re in for round 2 as Dario, lead author on the original, wrote a rare personal blogpost to spell out how he sees pacing pan out specifically: Embedded Evaluators. Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR ), whose role is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes. This is the key step for verifiability of any pacing commitments, and has precedent in the banking industry, which sometimes involves regulatory “supervisors” embedded along with employees