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With binding federal AI legislation still absent, a competition has opened up over which organizations will earn the right to evaluate the safety and capabilities of frontier AI models.
Washington is not expected to move quickly. The White House favors an arrangement where the industry polices itself, and that posture has placed evaluator credibility at the center of a growing fight.
The tension is sharpest around METR, the safety organization that investigated the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident.
Some White House officials and AI executives see the existing pool of safety and benchmarking organizations as too close to the companies they would assess and too tied to the effective altruism movement.
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