Independent verification is a conversation, not a verdict handed down from one building. These are the people whose work on AI evaluation, safety, and reliability sharpens ours — the writers and researchers we read to keep ourselves honest.
To be clear up front: this is editorial. The people below are independent voices we admire. None of them endorse, advise, or are affiliated with us — we're simply pointing to what they made.
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor — AI Snake Oil (Princeton). Among the clearest voices separating real AI capability from hype; their discipline of demanding evidence is the whole reason independent evaluation matters.
Rumman Chowdhury — Humane Intelligence. Pioneering work that treats red-teaming and algorithmic accountability as something you actually test, not just assert.
Helen Toner — CSET, Georgetown. Rigorous, sober analysis of how independent oversight of frontier AI can actually function.
Miles Brundage — independent researcher writing on the policy of frontier AI. On the gap between what labs can measure internally and what the public can actually verify.
Markus Anderljung — GovAI. Research on the practical mechanics of AI governance and evaluation — how the abstract principles become real processes.
Nathan Lambert — Interconnects. Clear-eyed technical writing on open models and how we actually measure them.
Dr. Seth Dobrin — Silicon Sands News. On why smaller, specialized models — and verifiable ground truth — beat scale-for-its-own-sake, and on taking the reliability and hallucination problem seriously.
Gary Marcus — Marcus on AI. The field's most persistent skeptic; a useful counterweight whenever the discourse drifts toward hype.
These are independent voices we read and admire. Listing them is editorial commentary — it does not imply they endorse, are affiliated with, advise, or have reviewed The FixAI Group or ReallySolved. All names and works belong to their authors; every link goes to their own publication. If you're named here and would prefer not to be, email founder@reallysolved.com and we'll remove you promptly.
If you work on independent AI evaluation, safety, or reliability — or you just want to compare notes — we'd genuinely like to hear from you.
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