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Anthropic gives six METR evaluators internal access and publication rights

Anthropic began giving six METR employees access to its internal systems and risk-assessment work on October 15th, with METR retaining publication rights over its risk assessments and Anthropic stating it cannot veto them. The arrangement implements CEO Dario Amodei's September call for embedded oversight, while Anthropic keeps narrow redaction powers and controls the access tiers evaluators receive.

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Anthropic gives six METR evaluators internal access and publication rights
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The arrangement puts CEO Dario Amodei's September call for embedded oversight into practice, with publication rights and defined limits on what evaluators can see.

        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Primary source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators)

Why it matters #

Anthropic is turning a CEO-level safety pledge into an operating arrangement: six outside evaluators get internal access and publication rights, while the lab retains narrow redaction powers and controls the access tiers.

On October 15th, Anthropic began giving six employees of the nonprofit METR access to internal systems and risk-assessment work, putting CEO Dario Amodei's call for embedded oversight into practice. METR says it will publish its risk assessments, and Anthropic says it cannot veto them.…

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