Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to evaluate its frontier models

Key points

• Six METR employees onboarded with company hardware, office space, and internal tools roughly on par with Anthropic's risk teams.
• METR can publish its analysis of risk levels, incidents, or practices; Anthropic cannot veto publication, only require narrow redactions.
• Anthropic has three evaluator access tiers; SecureBio is in the first tier, reviewing the chemical and biological weapons chapter of an August Risk Report.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams can expect more third-party-published safety findings, with redactions limited to narrow categories, shaping how AI risk claims are sourced and verified.