Anthropic Opens Employee-Level Access to METR Safety Researchers
Anthropic is embedding six METR researchers inside the company with employee-level access to internal tools, safety practices, and risk management systems, with the right to publish independent assessments without Anthropic veto. This closes a longstanding verification gap in AI safety oversight — moving from self-reported assurances to independently audited, externally published findings comparable to resident bank examiner models. The remaining maturity question is whether this tiered evaluation model scales across the industry and whether published assessments will carry sufficient technical depth to inform enterprise risk decisions.