alphabell joins the External Evaluation Cooperative
After eight months of negotiation, alphabell has joined the External Evaluation Cooperative as a full participant. We will both submit capability checkpoints to external evaluators and contribute evaluator capacity ourselves.
The Cooperative is a confidential cross-lab capability-evaluation arrangement. Member labs submit checkpoints to a rotating set of external evaluators drawn from peer labs and independent research groups. Evaluations are conducted under non-disclosure for the duration of the delay window applicable to the checkpoint.
alphabell's participation involves two reciprocal obligations: submitting our own dual-use capability checkpoints, and contributing evaluator capacity to evaluate peer labs' checkpoints. The participation was approved through a 71/14/8 quorum vote.
Its function is to make it harder for a single lab to misjudge the capability of its own systems by surfacing disagreement among evaluators with no commercial stake in the result.
The cooperative itself is not a regulatory body and has no enforcement powers. Its function is to make it harder for a single lab to misjudge the capability of its own systems by surfacing disagreement among evaluators with no commercial stake in the result.
For the protocol details behind anything mentioned above, see /governance and /charter. For the structural commitments, /about.