Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

Key points

• Anthropic is giving six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, employee-level access to independently assess its models, safety practices and risk management. The company said in a blog post on Thursday that METR will publish its own assessments and cannot be blocked from doing so.
• Anthropic can redact information only in narrow, pre-defined categories, such as customer data or model architectures. METR is currently the top tier of a three-tier evaluator system.
• The move follows a promise by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to embed outside evaluators inside AI labs.