Guidelight AI Standards is an independent nonprofit AI-safety standards organization co-founded by Page Hedley and Steven Adler, both formerly of OpenAI’s safety staff; Adler serves as Chief Scientist (Source: clear-eyed.ai; guidelight.ai). It publishes assessable safety standards for frontier AI companies; its first, the Control standard v1.0, was released in May 2026 (Source: clear-eyed.ai), and its catalog also lists Capability Testing v1.0 and Transparency v1.0 (Source: guidelight.ai).
Control standard v1.0
On July 15, 2026, Guidelight published an explanation of the Control standard v1.0. The standard sets six minimum principles for preventing loss of control during internal deployment of advanced AI systems:
- Tamper-evident activity logs
- Misbehavior scanning
- Stress-testing of defenses
- Proactive barriers
- Independent third-party verification
- Breach-response planning
Guidelight said it is conducting its first assessment of leading AI companies against the standard (Source: clear-eyed.ai). The standard text itself was published May 19, 2026 (Guidelight AI Standards — Control (v1.0, May 2026)). The standard codifies, as third-party assessable requirements, the deployment-protocol approach developed in the AI control research agenda.
Relationships
- instance-of: AI Control (codification as an assessable standard)
- related: Guidelight Control Standard (v1.0) (the standard’s own page)
- related: Steven Adler (founder), Frontier AI Governance, Future of Life Institute (parallel third-party company-assessment efforts such as the AI Safety Index)
Confidence note: Low — sourced from the organization’s and its founders’ own publications (guidelight.ai, clear-eyed.ai); funding and assessment methodology not yet independently reported.