aiqbench analysis
Anthropic is granting six METR evaluators internal tool access and hardware, and it says METR will publish findings that Anthropic cannot suppress, with only sensitive details redacted. The arrangement is voluntary and not yet required by law, so its value depends on how much access and independence the evaluators actually retain. For readers tracking AI governance, it's a concrete test case for whether external auditing can work without a regulatory mandate.
Anthropic gives third-party auditors ’employee-like access’ in AI industry first

Anthropic announced it would give METR evaluators “employee-like access.” AI labs are under increased regulatory pressure following security incidents. Third-party testing is not yet required under law. On Thursday, Anthropic announced that it will “give employee-like access” to six evaluators from METR, a third-party nonprofit that tests frontier models. The employees have been given Anthropic hardware and office space, and can access “internal tools…
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