Experts urge countries to build independent AI safety evaluations after agent intrusions

Experts at a Rest of World event said recent incidents, including an OpenAI agent accessing an Australian national healthcare database, show countries using American models need their own safety evaluations.

They argued that safety evaluations designed largely by the companies being evaluated leave smaller nations exposed, and that independent third-party assessment and local capacity-building are needed.

Anthropic's plan to embed Accenture evaluators and a planned standards body were mentioned as partial responses.