Safety · Concept
Science of AI Evaluation
Ada Lovelace Institute calls for strengthening the scientific basis of AI evaluation to bring clarity to AI risks and benefits, addressing current evaluation challenges.
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AISI Frontier AI Trends Report AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report exemplifies evidence-based AI evaluation science applied to frontier model assessment.
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LLM Reasoning as Pattern Matching Understanding that LLM reasoning is pattern-matching rather than abstract world modeling informs how AI evaluation science should be designed.
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Ada Lovelace Institute Ada Lovelace Institute published commentary on strengthening the science of AI evaluation to bring clarity to AI risks and benefits.
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Systems-Safety Methods for Agentic AI Loss-of-Control Risk Systems-safety methods applied to agentic AI strengthen the science of AI evaluation by surfacing risks missed by model-level testing.
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US evaluation centre Jun 2025
In June 2025 the US AI Safety Institute was renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), pivoting toward security, standards and adversary-model assessment.
NIST → Frontier safeguards May 2025
Anthropic activated its ASL-3 deployment and security standard with Claude Opus 4 on 22 May 2025 — the first real-world trigger of a responsible-scaling tier, focused on blocking bio-weapon uplift.
Anthropic → Cross-border testing 2025
The International Network of AI Safety Institutes (launched Nov 2024) ran a third joint testing exercise focused on agentic AI systems across cyber and fraud strands.
European Commission — AI Office →