aiqbench analysis
Anthropic is giving six METR researchers employee-level access, including company laptops, office space, and internal tools comparable to its own risk teams, and it has waived its right to block METR's publications. The main limits are that Anthropic can still require redactions in pre-defined categories, and METR can only comment publicly on those redactions without revealing the withheld content. Readers should watch whether this three-tier evaluator model becomes a repeatable standard, since the arrangement's value depends on how much METR can verify and how often its findings get published.
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Anthropic is giving employee-level access to six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, to independently assess Anthropic’s models, safety practices, and risk management, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The arrangement comes at a time where incidents…
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