Anthropic picks Accenture for third-party AI safety evaluations

Anthropic has contracted Accenture to conduct third-party safety evaluations of its frontier AI models, embedding evaluators within the company to monitor training, deployment decisions, and employee interactions. Both firms will invest at least $1 billion each over five years to support this joint effort. The partnership is part of CEO Dario Amodei’s plan to slow AI development by requiring ongoing, employee-like access for external safety reviewers.