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October 16, 2026

Anthropic grants METR employee-level access to audit its safety practices

Also: METR proposes external audits of AI labs' internal control over rogue systems‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Friday 16 October 2026

Transformative AI
Anthropic grants METR employee-level access to audit its safety practices
Anthropic said on 15 October that it has begun giving a team from the nonprofit evaluator METR access to its systems comparable to what its own risk assessment teams have, the company's first step in turning a September commitment to independent oversight into a working arrangement.

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