# Anthropic's independent evaluators update

> Anthropic starts giving employee-like access to METR for AI safety assessments.
- Title: Anthropic's independent evaluators update · Anthropic
- Summary: Anthropic starts giving employee-like access to METR for AI safety assessments. Anthropic began embedding METR evaluators with employee-like access to assess…
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- Source: Anthropic — https://anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators
- Published: 2026-10-15T17:20:00+00:00
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- Topics: anthropic, metr, risk reports, ai safety, third party evaluators, frontier ai models, securebio, accenture, ai, technology
## Announcements
Anthropic announced employee-like access for METR evaluators to assess AI safety risks.
## Why independent evaluators
Anthropic needs third-party risk assessments for powerful AI models without sharing sensitive data.
## METR access details
Six METR employees get company hardware, office space, and internal tools with limited data sharing rules.
## Publication rights
METR publishes risk assessments but can redact sensitive information per pre-defined categories.
## Other evaluator partnerships
Anthropic works with SecureBio and Accenture for limited AI safety evaluations.
## Three-tier access system
Anthropic develops three tiers of evaluator access with increasing publication rights and data access.
## Key takeaway

Anthropic began embedding METR evaluators with employee-like access to assess AI risks while maintaining data security.