Anthropic and OpenAI Propose Embedding Independent Safety Evaluators Inside AI Companies

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed in a weekend essay that frontier AI companies embed third-party evaluators with the power to assess model alignment, report safety incidents, and publish findings without editorial control. Amodei committed Anthropic to giving evaluators such as METR and Redwood Research expanded access, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company would follow suit. Evaluators welcomed the proposal but said key details remain unresolved, including actual access levels, and noted voluntary commitments may be fragile without binding regulation.