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

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Anthropic is giving employee-level access to six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, to independently assess Anthropic’s models, safety practices, and risk management, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.

The arrangement comes at a time where incidents of AI agents acting outside their instructions have been disclosed every week or two since late August. The incidents have sharpened calls for independent checks on AI companies.

“We want to be publicly accountable for the decisions we’re making,” Anthropic said in the blog post. “We aim to close the gap between what evaluators understand about a frontier AI company’s systems and what the company itself understands.”

Under the new arrangement, the METR team has Anthropic-issued company laptops, office space, and access to internal tools roughly on par with what Anthropic’s own risk assessment teams use.