Oversight and Evaluation Lag Accelerating AI Capabilities
Over the next 3-6 months, evidence mounts that governance, evaluation, and agent-safety methods are failing to keep pace with capability growth, driving investment in interpretability, agent-manipulation benchmarks, and institutional-reform proposals.
strengthening · confidence 67 · Medium term (3-9 months) · tracking since June 15, 2026 · updated June 16, 2026
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