OpenAI proposes seven principles for AI assessments

OpenAI has published 7 principles and 4 assessment areas for independent third-party reviews of frontier models. The framework for independent AI safety assessments asks evaluators to examine safety cases, safeguard resilience, Preparedness Framework capabilities, and serious misalignment incidents, while requiring pre-registered claims, proportionate access, disclosed conflicts, secure handling, actionable findings, remediation time, and responsible publication. It is a vendor proposal—not a completed audit or certification—but builders should file it as an emerging template for evaluating agent vendors before granting production permissions; Anthropic’s safety-researcher economics show why evaluator access and incentives matter as much as model scores.