‘Evaluators’ are supposed to keep AI from killing us all. No pressure

When a new group focused on AI evaluation gathered United Nations officials in New York last month for its official launch, it chose a California state senator, Jerry McNerney of Stockton, to give the closing remarks. McNerney, a Democrat who authored the verification standards law, called on nations and advanced AI companies like Anthropic and Google to create standards committees — in part to help ensure AI evaluators can properly do their jobs.

“We can put these companies on notice,” McNerney said at the event, “that they’re going to be evaluated by folks that understand the process, that understand the technology, and will be transparent and hold them accountable so that they create safe products, and they don’t send out these things into the wild that can cause havoc with banking, with our infrastructure and so on.”

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