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Who Audits the Auditors?

Rohit Krishnan · 26 May 2026

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  1. Our reading

    AI systems can suffer audit-capture failures analogous to human auditor capture, even without human incentives like money or career concerns.

    Their wordsAI systems however don't need lunch meetings, careers, or envelopes of cash to have an analogous failure.

  2. Our reading

    Audit independence is a property of the surrounding system and its evidence flows, not an inherent property of the auditing model itself.

    Their wordsaudit independence is not a property of the model. It is a property of the system around the model.

  3. Our reading

    Institutions fail not because people are wicked, but because evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights flow in the wrong direction.

    Mental modelIncentives

    Their wordsinstitutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.

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