Anthropic gave the nonprofit METR inside, employee-like access to review its AI models and safety practices, with the watchdog able to publish findings without Anthropic's approval.
Anthropic is giving METR researchers employee-level access to its systems. METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic's risks, incidents, and practices, and Anthropic has given up the right to block them.
Why it matters: It gives an outside research group the ability to publish independent assessments of a frontier AI developer without that developer being able to prevent publication.
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“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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