Third Party Evaluators

Anthropic embeds METR evaluators with internal system access at its offices

Anthropic has given METR, a nonprofit AI safety evaluator, 'employee-like access' to its hardware and internal systems, embedding a team inside its offices to assess risks from its Claude models. The move fulfils a commitment CEO Dario Amodei made in September, when OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed his call for third-party auditors inside leading AI labs. OpenAI has not yet announced similar arrangements.

arstechnica.com · 2026-10-18

Anthropic's Amodei Urges Third-Party Oversight, Not a Full AI Pause

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to open their systems to independent evaluators and work with government bodies to establish shared safety standards. Rather than a moratorium on development, he framed this as a call for structured oversight mechanisms to keep pace with rapid AI progress.

gizmodo.com · 2026-09-12