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I wonder: maybe it'd make sense to have some sort of watchdog organization officially tracking this sort of stuff. And maintaining a wall of shame-ish website. Maybe such a thing would make backpedalling on safety more costly for organizations, thus changing their calculus and causing them to spend incrementally more effort on safety.
I wonder if this could be fixed e.g. by making a table where columns are companies, rows are things that should be done, and the cells are e.g. black for "didn't even say that would do that" and orange for "they said they would do that" and green for "they actually do that"? Or something similar that would by design show "made a promise" as an improvement over "didn't even make a promise".
Yeah that's progress. But then you realize that ~all commitments are too weak/vague (not to mention non-standardized) and you notice that words-about-the-future are cheap and you realize you should focus on stuff other than commitments.
Also I feel more concern like companies' safety policies are super weak/vague/opaque so they'll be able to say they're complying while being unsafe than like companies will clearly violate their commitments. So I think tracking compliance is overrated relative to how on track the company is for safety.