# Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to its systems and says METR will publish its risk assessments

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Date: 15 Oct 2026
About: [Anthropic](https://technooptimist.io/companies/anthropic.md)
Original source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/an-update-on-independent-evaluators

Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR employee-like access to its systems, including company hardware, office space and internal tool access, for six onboarded staff. Anthropic describes three access tiers for outside evaluators; it says it cannot veto METR's publications, but it can require redactions in predefined categories such as customer data and model architecture.

## Key facts

- Tier 1 covers narrow investigations where Anthropic controls access and approves publication; Tier 2 allows publication without Anthropic's approval and wider access.
- Tier 3, the METR arrangement, gives employee-like access with publication rights similar to Tier 2.
- METR may say publicly whether it thinks a redaction was justified.
- SecureBio is reviewing the chemical and biological weapons chapter of Anthropic's August Risk Report.
- Accenture and Faculty are working on a partnership covering model evaluation, red-teaming and alignment assessments; Hugging Face is in early discussions.

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