Anthropic lets METR publish safety findings without its approval

Anthropic can no longer block the safety findings that METR publishes about it. The company said on Thursday that it had given six embedded researchers from the nonprofit almost the same access as its own staff. Six embedded researchers get company hardware and internal tools METR looks at frontier AI models. Its team now has pretty much the same Anthropic hardware, working space and internal tools that the company’s own risk assessment teams use. Anthropic staff are told to give the evaluators the same amount of information they would give to another employee who is working on alignment risk. METR will look at Anthropic’s risk levels, incidents and practices on its own and then release the results. There are a few pre-set categories that Anthropic can push redactions into.

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