California Moves to Certify Frontier AI Verifiers
💡California could formalize who is allowed to verify frontier AI—and expose the real cost of safety testing.
⚡ 30-Second TL;DR
What Changed
SB 813 requires California to certify independent frontier-model verification organisations.
Why It Matters
SB 813 could create a formal market for independent frontier-model evaluation and increase compliance costs for model developers. The METR example also shows that large-scale safety testing can require substantial inference resources and raises questions about evaluator independence.
What To Do Next
Inventory your frontier-model evaluations, API-credit requirements, and evaluator conflicts now so they can meet potential SB 813-style independence standards.
Key Points
- •SB 813 requires California to certify independent frontier-model verification organisations.
- •The certification requirement has a January 2028 deadline.
- •METR’s investigation consumed approximately $400,000 in OpenAI-provided API credits.
- •The investigation used a model from the same family involved in the incident.
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