{"slug": "anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-employee-level-access-to-its-models", "title": "Anthropic grants AI evaluator METR employee-level access to its models", "summary": "Anthropic said on Thursday it granted six METR employees employee-level access to its systems, including company hardware, office space and internal tools comparable to those used by Anthropic's own risk assessment teams, so the nonprofit AI evaluator can independently assess its advanced models, safety practices and risk management. METR will be able to publish independent assessments of risks, incidents and safety practices without prior approval, subject only to limited redactions covering customer data, privileged information and certain model architecture details. The move follows researcher concerns that leading AI labs could wield too much influence over independent reviews through publication restrictions and control over access to sensitive information.", "body_md": "Oct 15 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Thursday it has granted a team from nonprofit AI evaluator METR employee-level access to its systems, allowing the group to independently assess its advanced models, safety practices and risk management.\n\nThe announcement follows concerns among researchers and evaluators that leading AI labs could wield too much influence over independent reviews through publication restrictions and control over access to sensitive information.\n\nSix METR employees have been provided company hardware, office space and access to internal tools and systems broadly comparable to those available to Anthropic's own risk assessment teams, the company said.\n\nAnthropic added that METR will be able to publish independent assessments of risks, incidents and safety practices in the AI lab without prior approval, subject only to limited redactions covering areas such as customer data, privileged information and certain model architecture details.\n\n(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-employee-level-access-to-its-models", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-173515886.html", "published_at": "2026-10-15 17:35:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 19:29:36.095878+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "METR", "Anhata Rooprai", "Reuters", "Jonathan Ananda"], "also_reported_by": [{"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/anthropic-is-letting-metr-researchers-look-under-the-hood-with-employee-level-access/", "source": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access", "published_at": "2026-10-15T19:14:26+00:00"}], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-employee-level-access-to-its-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-employee-level-access-to-its-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-employee-level-access-to-its-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-grants-ai-evaluator-metr-employee-level-access-to-its-models.jsonld"}}