Anthropic gives outside AI safety evaluators METR and SecureBio inside access
Anthropic said on Thursday that it gave six embedded researchers from METR nearly the same access as its own staff, including company hardware and internal tools. It also said METR can publish its safety findings without Anthropic’s approval, while Anthropic gave outside evaluators METR and SecureBio inside access.
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Users, customers, and people watching the AI sector can now see Anthropic opening its systems more directly to outside review. The change is concrete today because METR’s embedded researchers have company hardware and internal tools, and METR can publish its safety findings without Anthropic’s approval.
Before this, the company could block METR’s safety findings; now that approval step is gone for that evaluator. What still stays in place is that Anthropic is also managing how outside access is handled through its own policies, including redaction practices tied to the wider evaluator arrangement.
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