Anthropic picks Accenture for third-party AI safety evaluations
Anthropic has partnered with Accenture to serve as third-party evaluators for the safety compliance of its frontier AI models. This collaboration involves a joint investment of at least $1 billion from each company over the next five years. The move is the first step in CEO Dario Amodei's plan to slow down AI development by embedding external evaluators within the company.
- ▪Anthropic and Accenture will each invest at least $1 billion into the joint safety evaluation effort over five years.
- ▪Accenture's evaluators will be embedded within Anthropic to monitor model training, deployment decisions, and employee interactions.
- ▪This partnership is part of a three-step proposal by CEO Dario Amodei to slow the pace of AI development.
- ▪Anthropic acknowledges that standards for the scope and access of embedded evaluators have not yet been established.
- ▪Both companies plan to work with other AI firms and evaluators in the coming weeks.
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News AI Anthropic picks Accenture for third-party AI safety evaluations This move represents the first step in the CEO’s plan to slow down AI development. By Jackson Chen Sept. 19, 2026 2:33 pm EST Chesnot/Getty Images Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Accenture's long list of consulting services is expanding to include evaluating Anthropic's frontier AI models for safety compliance. Anthropic announced the partnership that would allow Accenture to serve as third-party evaluators that will be embedded within the AI giant. The partnership would see both companies invest at least $1 billion each into this joint effort over the next five years.
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