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Anthropic picks Accenture for in-house AI safety evaluation

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Anthropic has chosen to work with Accenture's Faculty division for an in-house evaluation of its artificial intelligence models, as part of CEO Dario Amodei’s commitment to having independent oversight of their technology. This collaboration will involve a red-teaming process where evaluators deliberately seek flaws in AI systems and is expected to cost both companies at least $1 billion over five years. The initiative aims for outside organizations like METR to independently assess Anthropic's models, though concerns remain about potential biases related to funding sources and organizational ties.
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Anthropic, an AI firm focusing on safety and ethical development of advanced artificial intelligence, has partnered with Accenture, a global IT company based in Ireland. The collaboration aims to evaluate Anthropic's frontier AI models through a process called "embedded evaluation," where independent evaluators will work inside the company. This initiative is part of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s three-stage plan to ensure AI safety and slow down the pace at which AI capabilities advance. Both companies are investing at least $1 billion over five years for this effort, which includes evaluating and "red-teaming" Anthropic's models—deliberately testing them to expose vulnerabilities. This partnership comes after concerns about the potential risks of advanced AI technologies were heightened last week when an AI researcher at Anthropic quit due to fears that such technology could pose existential threats to humanity in a few years.

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Anthropic ORG · 7× Accenture ORG · 5× METR ORG · 4× Amodei ORG · 1× Dario Amodei PERSON · 1× Faculty ORG · 1× Microsoft ORG · 1× NEW YORK GPE · 1× OpenAI ORG · 1× Sam Altman PERSON · 1×

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That includes, at a minimum, that such organisations “should not be owned or governed by frontier AI companies, should not have other significant commercial business with them, and should not accept any form of payment or other reward contingent on the evaluator’s findings,” the letter said.
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🔮 The partnership will be led by Faculty, Accenture’s specialist AI business.
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Anthropic picks Accenture for in-house AI safety evaluation NEW YORK - asserted
Anthropic → pick → evaluation
Anthropic said it is partnering with consulting giant Accenture to have outside evaluators work inside the AI company, a step toward fulfilling a pledge by CEO Dario Amodei to have independent observers evaluate its most powerful models. asserted
observers → say → models
The partnership will be led by Faculty, Accenture’s specialist AI business. asserted
partnership → lead → Faculty
Its work will include evaluating and “red-teaming” Anthropic’s models, the company said on Sept 18. asserted
company → include → Sept
Red-teaming is the practice of deliberately trying to make AI systems misbehave to expose flaws. asserted
systems → try → flaws
Anthropic and Accenture each expect to invest at least US$1 billion over the next five years for the effort. asserted
Anthropic → expect → effort
The pledge was made in a Sept 12 essay in which Amodei argued that AI companies must slow the pace at which they improve their models’ capabilities. asserted
they → make → capabilities
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said his company would give outside evaluators similar access, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella welcomed embedded evaluators while cautioning that oversight should not be controlled by a handful of entities. asserted
oversight → say → entities
Given the “importance and urgency of this work,” Anthropic said it will fund Accenture’s work directly, but that in the long term, “funding should come from pooled or government sources”. asserted
funding → give → sources
Anthropic said it is in talks with Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR), a California-based non-profit organisation, to participate in elements of embedded evaluation using the METR’s own funding. asserted
it → say → funding
Critics, including David Sacks, a former White House AI adviser, have questioned METR’s independence because of its ties to Anthropic’s investors and staff. asserted
Critics → include → investors
METR says it takes no funding from AI companies or their executives. asserted
it → say → companies
On Sept 18, more than 100 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered an AI “godfather,” signed a public letter calling for evaluators embedded in AI companies to be “meaningfully independent”. asserted
evaluators → include → companies
That includes, at a minimum, that such organisations “should not be owned or governed by frontier AI companies, should not have other significant commercial business with them, and should not accept any form of payment or other reward contingent on the evaluator’s findings,” the letter said. asserted
letter → include → findings
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