Anthropic Gives METR Employee-Level Access

This is a meaningful step toward credible frontier-model oversight, but voluntary access still leaves the lab controlling the perimeter.

• –METR gains visibility beyond public model testing into safeguards, incidents, and operational risk practices
• –Publication rights improve accountability compared with earlier reviews subject to broader approval
• –Anthropic still controls access boundaries and decides which information qualifies for redaction
• –The arrangement could become a template for embedded evaluators at other frontier labs
• –Developers should expect safety evaluations to increasingly examine deployment systems, not just model benchmarks