Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to evaluate its systems and talks with other evaluators

In a post dated Oct 15, 2026, "An update on independent evaluators", Anthropic says it is giving a team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models, employee-like access to assess the safety of its systems. It says it is in early discussions with several other organizations, including Hugging Face. This is Anthropic's own account.