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AI evaluation firm Authensor shifts focus to auditing AI graders, fixing bugs

Authensor, an AI evaluation integrity firm, has retired its SafeClaw and Authensor policy engine products to focus on auditing AI grading tools. The company has identified and fixed numerous bugs across various AI evaluation frameworks, including SWE-bench, Promptfoo, and NVIDIA Garak, where the scoring systems could be influenced by the systems being evaluated. These issues, categorized under "Evaluator Trust Boundary" failures, could compromise the reliability of AI safety metrics. Authensor has also released a free, open-source tool called `etb-scan` to help developers check their own AI judges for specific vulnerabilities. AI

IMPACT Enhances the reliability of AI evaluation metrics, crucial for accurate safety and performance assessments.

RANK_REASON The item describes the release of a new open-source tool (etb-scan) and the company's shift in focus to auditing existing AI tools, rather than a novel model release or significant research breakthrough.

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · John Kearney ·

    I shut down my agent-safety toolkit to audit AI graders

    <p>Earlier this year I posted here about SafeClaw and Authensor's policy engine for AI agents. That product line is retired, and those posts now say so at the top. This is what Authensor works on instead.</p> <p>Authensor is an AI evaluation integrity firm in San Francisco. It au…