Anthropic Gives Six METR Researchers Internal Access for Independent AI Safety Assessments

Anthropic said it has given six researchers from METR employee-level access to assess its AI models, safety practices, and risk management, with freedom to publish findings without the company’s approval. The researchers from the nonprofit, which tests frontier AI models, receive company hardware, office space, and internal tools roughly comparable to those used by Anthropic’s risk assessment teams. The arrangement allows METR to publish assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, but accounts differ on how sensitive information is restricted. TechCrunch reported Anthropic’s statement that it cannot veto publication but can require redactions in narrow, predefined categories, including customer data, attorney-client privileged material, and model architecture information. The Decoder described those categories as off-limits to the researchers and said Anthropic can request redactions before publication. METR can publicly question whether redactions are justified.

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