Anthropic has formed a partnership with Accenture, an IT company based in Ireland, to independently evaluate its advanced AI models. The companies plan to invest at least $1 billion each over five years for this purpose. This initiative aims to create "embedded evaluators" who will have extensive access within Anthropic to assess the safety and operations of AI models as they develop.
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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 is partnering with an Ireland-based information technology company to start evaluating its frontier artificial intelligence models.
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The AI firm announced its “non-exclusive” partnership with Accenture on Friday after news surrounding AI development hit an all-time high last week.
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Accenture is the first company with which Anthropic is partnering on an independent evaluation of frontier AI.
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Anthropic said it will start collaborating with additional independent evaluators, who will be announced soon.
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Anthropic and Accenture are each investing at least $1 billion to build out “embedded evaluation” over the next five years.
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The practice is extremely new, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei first introduced the concept in a policy essay released last weekend.
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Amodei disclosed that embedded evaluation is the first step in Anthropic’s three-stage plan to “pace the frontier.”
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He defines embedded evaluators as those “who have employee-like access to verify safety practices and report incidents” involving AI models.
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Amodei said his company is “unilaterally committing” to this step, as seen in the Friday announcement.
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“Unlike today’s external evaluators, embedded evaluators will work inside AI companies, with access comparable to an employee’s,” Anthropic said in a statement.
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“That access allows them to watch models take shape in training, follow the decisions that govern how those models are built and deployed, and speak directly to employees.
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From this vantage point, embedded evaluators can assess how a company operates, verify that it is keeping its safety commitments, and identify blind spots.
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They can also report incidents and give the public a more informed account of benefits and risks.”
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“To be clear, independent embedded evaluators do not reduce our accountability, but help to make it more verifiable,” the frontier AI lab said.
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“The safety of our models remains our responsibility.”
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Anthropic said it expects other frontier AI labs to work with several embedded evaluators simultaneously.
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Accenture will likely work with more than one AI company in the future.
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“Given the importance and urgency of this work, Anthropic will fund Accenture’s work directly,” Anthropic said.
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“We are also in dialogue with METR and other nonprofit evaluators to pilot elements of embedded evaluation using their own funding.
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Ultimately, we believe frontier AI needs an ecosystem of evaluators operating with shared standards.”
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OpenAI also committed itself to embedded evaluation as a way to keep frontier AI in check.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Amodei’s concept a “great idea.”
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Concerns about AI safety were renewed last week after an AI researcher at Anthropic quit, citing an existential fear among AI developers that the very technology they’re building will advance to the point of potential human extinction in a few years.
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More cynical observers wondered whether the former employee’s public resignation was a ploy meant to push Congress into further regulating AI models.
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