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. Anthropic picks Accenture for third-party AI safety evaluations. 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.

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. Anthropic’s partnership with Accenture is one of the first steps of a plan to slow down the pace of AI development, as proposed by its CEO, Dario Amodei, last week.

In Amodei’s three-step approach, the proposal called for all "frontier AI" companies to give "ongoing, employee-like access" to embedded third-party evaluators that are tasked with ensuring safety practices and commitments are being followed, reporting incidents and assessing AI model alignment. More specifically, Accenture’s evaluators will "watch models take shape in training, follow the decisions that govern how those models are built and deployed and speak directly to employees," according to Anthropic. Anthropic explained that Accenture had experience helping businesses and governments deploy AI across several industries.

The AI company also said that Accenture has experience with how enterprises use AI and can offer more perspective when it comes to Anthropic’s own models.