Who Evaluates the Evaluators?

In our last piece, The Missing Layer, we talked with enterprise AI deployers across sectors about what it’s like to manage AI systems in the absence of shared trust infrastructure. The picture was consistent: sophisticated organizations doing impressive work, largely from scratch, without the shared standards, independent verification, or institutional backing that would let them demonstrate trustworthiness in ways the market can recognize.

This piece is about the other side of the equation: the people and organizations whose job is to independently evaluate whether AI systems are safe and trustworthy to use across a variety of use cases. The field is growing, but it’s still young and it doesn’t amount to the trust infrastructure AI demands.