Third-party AI safety evaluation organizations step into the spotlight
According to CNBC, Anthropic and OpenAI have committed to embedding third-party evaluators internally, bringing small nonprofit evaluation organizations such as METR and Apollo Research to the center of AI safety governance. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei last month proposed providing evaluators with desk space, badge access, company laptops, and access roughly comparable to that of the internal risk assessment team, and allowing them to publish critical findings. OpenAI subsequently released its own plan. Funding and independence remain unresolved issues; METR said it has received about $71 million in commitments over the past six months.
