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Anthropic embeds METR as safety check, but is it meaningful?

Anthropic embeds METR as safety check, but is it meaningful?

Dario Amodei's September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" says Anthropic is unilaterally committing to give embedded third-party evaluators such as METR employee-like access. A critique argues METR is not meaningfully independent, not sufficiently staffed, and has no authority Anthropic cannot revoke.

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