Summary

Six METR employees received company hardware, office space and access to internal tools and systems broadly comparable to Anthropic’s own risk-assessment teams. Anthropic says METR will be able to publish risk assessments without prior approval under the highest planned evaluator-access tier.

Why it matters

This is one of the clearest operational tests yet of independent frontier-model oversight, shifting external evaluation from commissioned review toward embedded access and greater publication independence.

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