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Case for hiring AI auditors

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Wicked says he will keep testing his own devices informally and making tutorials of what owners can try, but that the real testing and debugging will always depend on people who can code, and that the good news is it is becoming far more accessible to hire an expert, by which he means an AI model, to thoroughly audit any software you use. He calls it the dawn of a new era. Held as one node in the running argument across this record about AI-assisted auditing after the incident, from an account that also posted evacuation advice and a same-day walk-back during the same week. The claim that model audits are now a workable substitute is the poster's own and is not verified here.

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