Anthropic Selects Accenture as First Embedded Evaluator to Help Implement Amodei's Slowdown Proposal
Anthropic and OpenAI have been under intense scrutiny after researchers warned about the potential for AI to cause catastrophic harm to humanity.
TL;DR
- Anthropic has selected Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help implement a plan for slowing AI development.
- The partnership involves Accenture employees gaining employee-level access to Anthropic to verify safety practices and test models.
- Anthropic and Accenture are investing at least $1 billion over five years in this area, with Anthropic funding Accenture's work directly.
- This initiative is part of CEO Dario Amodei's three-step plan to temper the rapid improvement of advanced AI models.
- Anthropic is also in discussions with the research nonprofit METR and other third parties for similar evaluations.