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THE CIVIC STACK
SECTION 14
ISSUE 001
PROJECTIONprovocation1-3yconfidence / medium
Make Frontier Labs Fund Their Critics
Provocation: major providers should finance independently governed evaluation funds open to universities, civil society, labor, and affected communities. Secure access and legal protection matter, but the structural rule matters more: the company paying into the pool cannot choose the questions, the evaluators, or the publication decision.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
The UN panel calls for independent, globally available evidence; the agent index finds limited disclosure of third-party testing and benchmark performance.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
UN scientific report / published 2026-07-01 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02The 2025 AI Agent Index — published June 2026
peer-reviewed transparency index / published 2026-06-25 / retrieved 2026-07-10