Anthropic Gives METR Researchers Employee-Level Access

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Anthropic has begun embedding AI evaluators within the company to assess and publish reports on safety practices and risks, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The researchers, from the nonprofit METR, will use company computers and office space and will have access to internal tools and systems. METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic's risks, incidents, and practices, and Anthropic has given up the right to block those reports. The arrangement gives an outside group unusual visibility into a frontier AI developer's internal safety work. It follows growing pressure on AI companies to submit to independent scrutiny as their models become more capable and more widely deployed.

Why it matters：Granting an outside evaluator employee-level access and the right to publish unblocked reports is a notable test of independent safety oversight for the AI industry, which faces rising pressure to prove its models are safe.

Key points

  • METR researchers will use Anthropic computers, office space, and internal tools.
  • METR will publish its own assessments of risks, incidents, and practices.
  • Anthropic has given up the right to block those reports.

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