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Anthropic grants METR employee-level access for independent AI safety assessments

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Anthropic announced it is giving METR researchers employee-like access to its models and safety practices as part of its pledge to strengthen independent third-party assessment. METR will publish its own evaluations of Anthropic's risks, incidents, and practices, and Anthropic has waived any right to block their publications.

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  1. Techmeme
    Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices (Anthropic)

    Anthropic : Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices — Last month, we committed to stronger independent, third-party assessment of our models and safety practices.

  2. TechCrunch AIAditya Mehta
    Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

    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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