ProductsProduct / feature launchSafety & Alignment3 sources · Oct 18, 2026

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control.

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Key points

  • METR, a nonprofit that has worked with leading labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, now has a team embedded in the Claude maker’s office with access to its hardware and internal systems.
  • Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR inside access to review its AI models and safety practices, the company announced.
  • The article Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices appeared first on The Decoder.
  • METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Sources (3)

  • [1]Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
    Ars Technica: AI · Oct 18, 04:25 PM
    Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control.
    METR, a nonprofit that has worked with leading labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, now has a team embedded in the Claude maker’s office with access to its hardware and internal systems.
  • [2]Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices
    The Decoder · Oct 16, 01:11 PM
    Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR inside access to review its AI models and safety practices, the company announced.
    The article Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices appeared first on The Decoder.
  • [3]Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
    TechCrunch: AI · Oct 15, 07:14 PM
    METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

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