Steven Mih

Independent AI Evaluation Needs Independently Verifiable Evidence

The Missing Layer in AI Oversight Is the Evidence Layer October 9, 2026 · Steven Mih, Action State Group The industry is solving the evaluator problem Frontier AI labs are starting to give outside evaluators unusually deep access to their systems and internal evidence. On September 18, Anthropic announced its first

Deep-dive: how the public TRACE Registry is built to be distrusted

Co-authored by: Steven Mih, Founder/CEO, Action State Group & Imran Siddique, CPO, OPAQUE Systems, who cross-posted on September 14, 2026 here. Also joint webinar with Mark Hinkle, Founder The AIE Network on Sept 22, 12:00 noon EST, register here. On September 9, the Cloud Security Alliance

Agents crossed the effect boundary. Your logs didn't.

One of the world's leading AI labs just published a plan for what to do if its own agents go rogue. Last week, on June 18, 2026, Google DeepMind released an AI Control Roadmap that assumes — for planning purposes — that a capable AI agent might try to evade

Logs prove nothing — and the web already fixed this once

Logs prove nothing — and the web already fixed this once Field Notes on the Agent Economy · Action State · June 2026 This week we open-sourced scitt-cose, a standalone verifier for IETF SCITT receipts and signed statements, along with a free hosted verifier at verify.actionstate.ai. This post is