Anthropic partners with IT company Accenture to evaluate frontier AI models

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    "title": "Anthropic partners with IT company Accenture to evaluate frontier AI models - Washington Examiner",
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    "excerpt": "Anthropic is partnering with an Ireland-based information technology company to start evaluating its frontier artificial intelligence models. The AI firm announced its “non-exclusive” partnership with Accenture on Friday after news surrounding AI development hit an all-time high last week. Accenture is the first company with which Anthropic is partnering on an independent evaluation of frontier AI. Anthropic said it will start collaborating with additional independent evaluators, who will be announced soon. Join Washington Examiner for unlimited access to the news, analysis, and commentary that matter most. Already a member? Log in Anthropic and Accenture are each investing at least $1 billion to build out “embedded evaluation” over the next five years. The practice is extremely new, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei first introduced the concept in a policy essay released last weekend. Amodei disclosed that embedded evaluation is the first step in Anthropic’s three-stage plan to “pace the frontier.” He defines embedded evaluators as those “who have employee-like access to verify safety practices and report incidents” involving AI models. Amodei said his company is “unilaterally committing” to this step, as seen in the Friday announcement. “Unlike today’s external evaluators, embedded evaluators will work inside AI companies, with access comparable to an employee’s,” Anthropic said...",
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