# Anthropic Grants METR Team Deep Access for AI Risk Assessment > Source: > Published: 2026-10-19 17:56:02+00:00 Big news in the AI safety world: Anthropic is granting a team from METR, a nonprofit focused on assessing frontier AI models, employee-like access to evaluate its cutting-edge AI systems. This unprecedented level of access will enable the METR team to publish a thorough risk evaluation, providing crucial insights into Anthropic's AI models.