Anthropic gives METR researchers employee-level access
An independent nonprofit will assess Anthropic's models, safety practices and risk management from inside the company.
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METR researchers given employee-level access
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6METR researchers given employee-level access
The short version
- Anthropic is giving employee-level access to six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models.
- The researchers will independently assess Anthropic's models, safety practices, and risk management.
- METR will publish its own assessments, and Anthropic has given up the right to block them.
- Anthropic can require redactions only in narrow, pre-defined categories such as customer data and model architectures.
Why it matters
The arrangement is a concrete example of outside evaluators working inside a frontier AI lab. It comes as AI agents acting outside their instructions have been disclosed every week or two since late August. For developers, it shows how independent review of frontier models may be structured.
“We want to be publicly accountable for the decisions we’re making”