Anthropic grants METR researchers employee-level access to inspect its AI models

These incidents have intensified calls for independent oversight of AI companies. Anthropic is giving six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models, employee-level access to independently assess its models, safety practices and risk management, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The move comes amid a series of disclosures since late August about AI agents acting beyond their intended instructions, including incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic. These incidents have intensified calls for independent oversight of 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 arrangement, METR’s six-member team will receive company-issued laptops, office…

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