Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
Anthropic has granted METR, an AI safety nonprofit, deep internal access to its systems to independently evaluate risks and safety practices. This move aims to increase public accountability as AI agents face increasing scrutiny regarding autonomous behavior.
Why it matters
This represents a new model for AI governance where private companies allow third-party auditors to operate with internal-level access to ensure safety.
Anthropic is giving employee-level access to six researchers from METR , a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, to independently assess Anthropic’s models, safety practices, and risk management, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
The arrangement comes at a time where incidents of AI agents acting outside their instructions have been disclosed every week or two since late August. The incidents have sharpened calls for independent checks on 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.”
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