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

techcrunch.comAditya Mehta

Anthropic grants METR researchers employee-level access to its systems for independent safety assessment, with publishing rights unrestricted by Anthropic's approval. METR will conduct and publicly release evaluations of Anthropic's risks, incidents, and practices.

Why it mattersThis arrangement provides third-party transparency on frontier AI safety practices without corporate censorship rights, establishing precedent for how leading labs might enable external oversight of their operations.
From the source: METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
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