Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to assess its AI models
Anthropic announced that METR, a nonprofit AI evaluator, has been granted employee-like access to review its models and safety practices, with results to be published. The company says it has also engaged SecureBio and Accenture as evaluators and is in early talks with other groups including Hugging Face, following its commitment last month to stronger third-party assessment and its signing of the White House Accord on Super Intelligence.
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Granting deep, employee-like access suggests Anthropic is trying to narrow the gap between what outside evaluators know and what the company itself knows about its systems, which could set a precedent for how AI labs demonstrate accountability without disclosing sensitive compute or training data. The involvement of multiple evaluators, including a potential future role for Hugging Face, may signal an attempt to build a broader ecosystem of independent oversight across the industry.
- METR has been given employee-like access to evaluate Anthropic's frontier models and will publish its risk assessments.
- Anthropic is also working with SecureBio and Accenture, and is in early talks with other organizations including Hugging Face.
- The move follows Anthropic's commitment to third-party assessment and its signing of the White House Accord on Super Intelligence.
Source: anthropic.com, 2026-10-15
Published there as: “Anthropic Update on Independent Evaluators”
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