Anthropic grants outside evaluator METR employee-level access in AI safety push
Corroborated by 4 sources from 4 publishers
TL;DR
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.
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Financial Times Companies
https://www.ft.com/content/a3a389d2-7796-4f40-98d3-8986f26f6513?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/anthropic-is-letting-metr-researchers-look-under-the-hood-with-employee-level-access
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Investing.com News
https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-employeelevel-access-to-its-models-4952420
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CNBC Top News
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/anthropic-metr-securebio-ai-safety-evaluators.html