Anthropic gives an independent evaluator team at METR employee-like access

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Anthropic gave a team from the independent evaluator METR employee-like access — 6 METR employees received company hardware, office space and access to internal tools and systems roughly on par with its own risk assessment teams

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It described evaluator partnerships in 3 tiers and presented this as the deepest, saying it is in early discussions with other organizations including Hugging Face. It added the caveat that information about model architectures carries a high leak risk and will be shared only when highly relevant, with internal approval

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Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators

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