METR proposes external audits of AI labs' internal control over rogue systems
X-Risk Daily
Thursday 15 October 2026
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METR, the independent AI safety evaluator best known for pre-deployment model testing at Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI, published a proposal on 14 October setting out a process for recurring external reviews of how frontier AI developers manage the systems they use internally, not just the models they release to the public.
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