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OpenAI’s new priorities for third-party assessments are a fine start, but they lack teeth

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OpenAI published a detailed list of priorities and principles on Tuesday designed to govern its third-party model assessors, a list that industry observers agreed was a good one. But they also stressed that it lacked any enforceable controls to truly maintain safety. If the goal is to encourage enterprise CIOs to trust OpenAI more, it won’t help, they said, but most doubted that this was OpenAI’s objective. Its more probable aim is to use the list to work out an arrangement with competitors and regulators so that enforcement is made more palatable, under the theory that it is open to stricter enforcement , but only if all of its key rivals are locked into identical restrictions. The OpenAI post said, “OpenAI is committed to supporting independent assessments with deep levels of access across training, evaluation and deployment. That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effectiveness of

First report: Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments — openai.com, 2d