# "We need 3rd party Training-Run Assessments" by Alex Meinke

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Published: 2026-07-07T13:45:17+00:00
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Training-run assessments conducted by a 3rd party should become a standard part of frontier AI safety. By a Training-Run Assessment, or TRA, I mean an in-depth analysis of the post-training pipeline and dynamics leading up to a frontier model release. A TRA can look at intermediate checkpoints, training rollouts, RL environments, reward signals, SFT datasets, and the process by which the developer responded to warning signs.[1] In this post I will argue that: Final-checkpoint evaluatio...

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