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Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Publisher description: Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

TechCrunch | Sep 18, 2026 | Tim Fernholz

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Dario Amodei’s plans to put third-party safety evaluators inside AI labs are taking shape: Anthropic said that staff from technology consulting giant Accenture will begin working inside the company to scrutinize its models and staff. The discussion around embedded evaluators that sprang from Amodei’s blog post has focused on AI safety research organizations like METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research. It is also, as a large public company that predates the AI revolution, more functionally independent of Anthropic and the let’s-say-complex ecosystem around the AI lab.

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