“‘…embedded evaluators to go into companies, try to collect this data and come out with an estimate of the returns of research effort.’”
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Alan Chan
"The Cognitive Revolution" ·
“We have embedded auditors with a lot of access and power ... they can look into how much the company is spending on compute versus human labor versus data”
Alan Chan, GovAI · "The Cognitive Revolution" · Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
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proposed embedding auditors with broad access and authority inside AI companies to run calculations and experiments on compute spend, labor, and data costs to estimate returns on research effort
Said nearby on the same subject
“‘embedded auditors that are inside and make judgments about, oh, is this actually a safety team or is this like a capabilities team disguised as a safety team’”
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Alan Chan GovAI
"The Cognitive Revolution" ·
“Carnegie also insisted on railroad-style cost accounting… His monthly reports carefully spread labor costs… tracked all raw material inputs and percentage of waste… competitors literally had no idea what was going on inside their own company.”
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Said on Founders
“Measure the return… might be cost savings, might be revenue growth, divided by both the labor cost and the token cost associated with that project.”
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Matt Kropp
The So What from BCG ·
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