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Kim outlines minimum testing, evaluation, and red-team standards

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 1:22:43 · 1 min 35 sec

Menin asks what minimum testing and red-team procedures frontier AI developers should complete; Kim identifies missing critical thresholds for bioweapon and cyber capabilities, documentation justifying deployment, and testing for loss of control and manipulation capabilities as gaps in XAI releases.

Julie Menin

And based on your experience inside the company, what minimum testing, evaluation, and red team procedures should frontier AI developers be required to complete before releasing any model to the public?

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

There are a number of very critical safety gaps that are present in XAI's model releases that are not present in other companies.

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

One gap is critical thresholds.

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

Companies typically commit to not releasing models above what they consider to be critical thresholds, whether that is in bioweapon capabilities,

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

cyber capabilities, and other dangerous capabilities that the model have.

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

A second...

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

A second part of these releases that is very critical is a documentation justification for deployment.

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

Typically what that looks like is explaining what sort of critical thresholds were reached and what work was done to mitigate those thresholds and their justification for why they believe this model is safe before releasing it.

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

And then especially, and then a third critical piece that is becoming increasingly relevant is

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

Companies should be testing for loss of control and manipulation capabilities of these models before releasing.

Member of the Public - Devin Kim

And specifically, these are standards that many companies have today, but are notably absent in the XCI safety releases.