Anthropic CEO proposes third-party AI evaluators with employee-level access

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for third-party evaluators (e.g., METR) to have permanent employee-level access to labs to verify AI safety and alignment. The idea was supported by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis, and Mark Zuckerberg. Salaries for such specialists at METR reach $687,000.

• Amodei proposed embedded third-party evaluators with employee-level access
• The idea was supported by Altman, Musk, Hassabis, and Zuckerberg
• METR pays evaluators up to $687,000, Mercor pays $180,000–$300,000
• Evaluators check training pipelines, incidents, and model alignment