Anthropic gives an independent evaluator team at METR employee-like access
Anthropic gave a team from the independent evaluator METR employee-like access — 6 METR employees received company hardware, office space and access to internal tools and systems roughly on par with its own risk assessment teams
Why it matters
It described evaluator partnerships in 3 tiers and presented this as the deepest, saying it is in early discussions with other organizations including Hugging Face. It added the caveat that information about model architectures carries a high leak risk and will be shared only when highly relevant, with internal approval
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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