Anthropic gives third-party auditors ’employee-like access’ in AI industry first
ZDNET’s key takeaways
- 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, and can access “internal tools and systems that are roughly on par with what our own risk assessment teams have access to,” Anthropic said. “Outside a small number of clearly defined categories (e.g., data about customers, attorney-client privileged information, or information about our model architectures), Anthropic employees are encouraged to share information with them just as they would with a fellow employee working on alignment risk.”
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