Key Institutional Considerations for Designing Effective Independent Verification Organizations

arXiv:2611.10168v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Independent verification organizations (IVOs) have emerged as a popular, bipartisan solution for facilitating high-quality independent evaluations of AI technologies. But momentum is outpacing design: there is emerging consensus on the necessary operating conditions for robust IVOs, but little discourse on institutional and policy specifications to ensure those conditions are met. IVOs are currently envisioned primarily as a mechanism operating at the AI frontier and model level to evaluate catastrophic risks. Little work has yet been done on

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