“If a bank’s risk-taking may threaten the public, third parties try to see this in advance,” the company said.
Anthropic is also under pressure to assure investors that security concerns will not overshadow its initial public offering, which is expected this year at a valuation of more than $2 trillion. It spent much of its investor presentations this week laying out its security practices.
METR was one of the organizations that investigated the Hugging Face hack by unauthorized OpenAI models, reviewing thousands of logs and receiving laptops from the company.
Anthropic has now onboarded six METR employees, providing them with company hardware, office space, and “access to internal tools and systems that are roughly on par with what our own risk assessment teams have access to.”
The lab said it has encouraged employees to share information with testers as they would with a coworker who works at risk.
Anthropic does not pay METR for this agreement. The research group does not accept donations from AI companies or their staff. It is funded by donations from individuals and philanthropic organizations, as well as government bodies such as the UK AI Safety Institute.
The evaluators will publish their analysis and Anthropic will not be able to veto the publication. However, you can require them to delete information that falls into certain categories, such as client data, details covered by attorney-client privilege, or information about model architectures.
Anthropic added that it was still working with Accenture, which was named a security testing partner last month, and that each committed at least $1 billion to establish new safeguards.
Another third-party evaluator is SecureBio, which reviews the chemical and biological weapons risk for the company.
“We are onboarding testers on a voluntary basis and believe all cutting-edge AI companies should do the same,” Anthropic said.
METR said: “We are willing to work with all cutting-edge AI developers to bring better testing to the public.”
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