Anthropic gives a METR team employee-like access and describes publication terms for outside evaluators

In an October 15, 2026 update on independent evaluators, Anthropic said it has begun giving a small team from METR employee-like access, with internal tools and systems roughly comparable to those of its own risk assessment teams, under enforceable agreements, and that METR will publish its risk assessments. Anthropic says it cannot veto publication but can require redactions limited to narrow, predefined categories such as customer data, privileged information, and model architectures, and that evaluators may say publicly whether redactions were justified. The post describes three tiers of evaluator access and says SecureBio is reviewing the chemical and biological weapons chapter of Anthropic's August Risk Report. These are Anthropic's own descriptions; the post does not include METR's assessments.1

USASI. (2026, October 16). Anthropic gives a METR team employee-like access and describes publication terms for outside evaluators. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/anthropic-gives-metr-employee-like-access-for-risk-assessments/

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  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Anthropic gives a METR team employee-like access and describes publication terms for outside evaluators},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/anthropic-gives-metr-employee-like-access-for-risk-assessments/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-16}
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