Anthropic Grants Independent Safety Evaluators Full Employee-Level Access to AI Systems

Anthropic announced that it has granted employee-like access to METR, an independent nonprofit evaluator, marking the first full implementation of embedded third-party oversight at a major AI developer. The arrangement, announced October 15, includes six METR staff members onboarded with company hardware, office space, and access to internal tools comparable to Anthropic's own risk assessment teams—a concrete step toward external safety scrutiny that has been widely advocated but rarely implemented at this scope.