Adrian Bridgwater writes that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for frontier AI companies to grant embedded third-party evaluators "employee-like access" to verify safety practices, assess model alignment, and report incidents—likening the role to regulatory supervisors in banking. The proposal drew immediate endorsement from Altman, Musk, Hassabis, and Zuckerberg, following dire warnings from former researcher Jacob Coxon that AI could "kill us all" by the decade's end.
- METR salaries top out around $687K; Mercor offers comparable roles at $180K–$300K
- Security consultant Kadan Stadelmann argues demonstrated engineering skills matter more than doctorates
- Dion Johnson stresses evaluators need access to "uncomfortable things," not just polished demonstrations
California Senator introduces bill to regulate artificial intelligence models posing a risk of critical harm.