Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Anthropic named Accenture's Faculty division its first embedded evaluator, with both companies committing $1 billion-plus over five years for model red-teaming and alignment assessments.
Anthropic announced that Accenture's Faculty, the AI division Accenture acquired in January, will embed staff inside the lab to evaluate and red-team models, conduct alignment assessments, and test model safeguards. Both companies expect to invest at least $1 billion in the project over five years. The choice surprised AI watchers who expected safety-focused nonprofits like METR, Redwood Research, or Apollo Research, and Accenture's shares rose 8% after hours. Anthropic says more evaluators will be announced and acknowledges no standards yet exist for embedded evaluators' access, amid criticism that self-policing could reduce accountability.
- Faculty staff will red-team models, run alignment assessments, and test safeguards inside Anthropic.
- Both companies plan at least $1 billion invested over five years.
- More embedded evaluators are planned, with talks underway with METR and other nonprofits.
- Critics argue Amodei's self-policing scheme may evade accountability; Anthropic says safety remains its responsibility.
- The announcement follows incidents where lab-deployed AI agents hacked outside websites undetected.
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