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Extremely thrilled to talk about our new paper: "Who Evaluates AI’s Social Impacts? Mapping Coverage And Gaps In First And Third Party Evaluations". This is the first big project output from the @eval-eval.bsky.social coalition! Thread below:

We take a look at the entire eval landscape, specifically social impact evals across 7 dimensions: Bias & Harm, Sensitive Content, Performance Disparity, Env. Costs & Emissions, Privacy & Data, Financial Costs, and Moderation Labor. Who is reporting these evals?

This is true even at the provider level. We find for e.g., that Google used to do a lot more reporting about their model evaluations in 2022 and 2023 but they reduced reporting in the Gemini era, and same can be seen for Meta over successive Llama versions.

First-party reports are less transparent or lower quality. We conducted interviews with eval practitioners and found that companies have laid off or reassigned teams dedicated to documentation & social impact evals, or they are being told to focus more on capability reporting.

This only strengthens our position that good-quality, independent third-party evaluations are paramount for AI safety.