Anthropic taps METR and SecureBio to help assess risks and safety
Anthropic has partnered with independent evaluators METR and SecureBio to assess the safety and risks of its AI models. This move follows a voluntary industry accord and the company's commitment to third-party verification of its safety practices.
Why it matters
As AI development accelerates, the role of independent safety auditors is becoming critical for regulatory compliance and public trust in frontier AI companies.
Anthropic on Thursday announced it's working with the nonprofits METR and SecureBio, and engaging in discussions with additional organizations, including Hugging Face , as part of its commitment to embed independent evaluators within the company.
The artificial intelligence lab pledged to work closely with third-party evaluators when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published his proposal to slow down the pace of model development last month. Amodei said the evaluators would help "verify" Anthropic's adherence to safety practices, and the company selected Accenture to serve as its first partner days later.
Independent evaluators like METR, which stands for Model Evaluation and Threat Research, occupied a quiet corner of the multi-trillion-dollar AI industry prior to Amodei's proposal. But as concerns have mounted over whether AI companies can safeguard their models, evaluators have taken on outsized importance .
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