Anthropic gives third-party auditors ’employee-like access’ in AI industry first

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Anthropic announced it would give METR evaluators “employee-like access.”

AI labs are under increased regulatory pressure following security incidents.

Third-party testing is not yet required under law.

On Thursday, Anthropic announced that it will “give employee-like access” to six evaluators from METR, a third-party nonprofit that tests frontier models.

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The employees have been given Anthropic hardware and office space…