Black-box auditing

Assessing an AI system's real behavior, cost, and honesty purely from its inputs, outputs, and network traffic when the vendor's internals and claims cannot be trusted.

grounded in: trend theme 'Distrust of AI vendor claims: Top stories reward blunt scrutiny of what AI companies actually do versus what they market', plus the 'Grok CLI wire analysis' notable reverse-engineering ex

Connected concepts

Evals & benchmarks, AI washing, Wire-level tool auditing, Mechanistic interpretability, Online evaluation