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Tech · 19 d ago

Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive

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Anthropic lets outside AI testers work inside the company

METR researchers given employee-level access

6 researchers

Six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, get employee-level access to Anthropic, with company laptops, office space and internal tools.

Anthropic gives up the right to block METR's reports on its risks, incidents and practices.

See the answer

True.

METR publishes its own assessments. Anthropic can only require redactions in narrow categories, such as customer data or its model architectures.

Background

Chief executive Dario Amodei proposed placing outside evaluators inside AI labs in a September essay. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia and xAI have since signed a White House accord committing to independent review.