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most citedBlack-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits

72 citations · 109 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.AI2026

Audit tools of the trade: Automated Auditor Elicitation Can Be Sensitive to the Context the Auditor Is Given

Ben Slater, Ryan Lundqvist, Leo Richter +1

Does providing additional context to automated AI auditors improve their effectiveness? Using the Petri tool to audit LLM coding agents, we test the impact of providing two types o…

cs.CY2026

Underwriting the Agent Economy: The Blueprint for an AI Insurance Stack

Cristian Trout, Sanmi Koyejo, Sasha Romanosky +34

From maritime trade to commercial nuclear power, insurance has been the enabler of major economic and technological developments by pricing risk, limiting downside, and spreading b…

cs.CY2026

RCTs for Frontier AI Governance: Methodological Challenges and Solutions for Human Uplift Studies

Patricia Paskov, Kevin Wei, Shen Zhou Hong +7

Human uplift studies, or studies that measure the effects of AI access on human performance via randomized controlled trials (RCT) or similar methodologies, increasingly inform fro…

cs.LG2026

From Human-Level AI Tales to AI Leveling Human Scales

Peter Romero, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, Zachary R. Tidler +11

Comparing AI models to "human level" is often misleading when benchmark scores are incommensurate or human baselines are drawn from a narrow population. To address this, we propose…

cs.CY2026★ 3 cited

The 2025 AI Agent Index: Documenting Technical and Safety Features of Deployed Agentic AI Systems

Leon Staufer, Kevin Feng, Kevin Wei +6

Agentic AI systems are increasingly capable of performing professional and personal tasks with limited human involvement. However, tracking these developments is difficult because…

cs.CY2025

Designing Incident Reporting Systems for Harms from General-Purpose AI

Kevin Wei, Lennart Heim

We introduce a conceptual framework and provide considerations for the institutional design of AI incident reporting systems, i.e., processes for collecting information about safet…

cs.CY2025

Preliminary suggestions for rigorous GPAI model evaluations

Patricia Paskov, Michael J. Byun, Kevin Wei +1

This document presents a preliminary compilation of general-purpose AI (GPAI) evaluation practices that may promote internal validity, external validity and reproducibility. It inc…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

Bridging the Artificial Intelligence Governance Gap: The United States' and China's Divergent Approaches to Governing General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence

Oliver Guest, Kevin Wei

The United States and China are among the world's top players in the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and both are keen to lead in global AI governance…

cs.CY2025

Third-party compliance reviews for frontier AI safety frameworks

Aidan Homewood, Sophie Williams, Noemi Dreksler +11

Safety frameworks have emerged as a best practice for managing risks from frontier artificial intelligence (AI) systems. However, it may be difficult for stakeholders to know if co…

cs.SE2025★ 6 cited

The AI Agent Index

Stephen Casper, Luke Bailey, Rosco Hunter +12

Leading AI developers and startups are increasingly deploying agentic AI systems that can plan and execute complex tasks with limited human involvement. However, there is currently…

cs.CY2025★ 3 cited

Local US officials' views on the impacts and governance of AI: Evidence from 2022 and 2023 survey waves

Sophia Hatz, Noemi Dreksler, Kevin Wei +1

This paper presents a survey of local US policymakers' views on the future impact and regulation of AI. Our survey provides insight into US policymakers' expectations regarding the…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Infrastructure for AI Agents

Alan Chan, Kevin Wei, Sihao Huang +5

AI agents plan and execute interactions in open-ended environments. For example, OpenAI's Operator can use a web browser to do product comparisons and buy online goods. Much resear…

cs.CY2024★ 16 cited

How Do AI Companies "Fine-Tune" Policy? Examining Regulatory Capture in AI Governance

Kevin Wei, Carson Ezell, Nick Gabrieli +1

Industry actors in the United States have gained extensive influence in conversations about the regulation of general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Although industr…

cs.CY2024★ 72 cited

Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits

Stephen Casper, Carson Ezell, Charlotte Siegmann +18

External audits of AI systems are increasingly recognized as a key mechanism for AI governance. The effectiveness of an audit, however, depends on the degree of access granted to a…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Visibility into AI Agents

Alan Chan, Carson Ezell, Max Kaufmann +9

Increased delegation of commercial, scientific, governmental, and personal activities to AI agents -- systems capable of pursuing complex goals with limited supervision -- may exac…

cs.CY2023★ 5 cited

Open-Sourcing Highly Capable Foundation Models: An evaluation of risks, benefits, and alternative methods for pursuing open-source objectives

Elizabeth Seger, Noemi Dreksler, Richard Moulange +19

Recent decisions by leading AI labs to either open-source their models or to restrict access to their models has sparked debate about whether, and how, increasingly capable AI mode…