🤖 Anthropic’s Independent Evaluator Questioned

Anthropic named Accenture as the first independent evaluator under its Embedded Evaluators program. The review will cover red-teaming, alignment checks, and safeguards testing. Anthropic says it will fund the work.

Accenture trains ~30,000 employees to work with Claude and has had a multi-year contract with Anthropic since late 2025. That makes its independence an open question.

Anthropic previously gave METR “independent access” to investigate agent incidents. METR is also indirectly financed through Anthropic stock, leaving the evaluators tied to the startup’s financial interests.

📊@tech