In an essay published on September 12, 2026, CEO Dario Amodei committed the company to inviting an independent third-party team with ongoing, employee-like access. The evaluators would check safety practices, report incidents and assess alignment of finished models and training pipelines.
Amodei says Anthropic intends to invite the team in the near future. Access would be mostly comparable to internal teams, with exceptions for legal and contractual requirements and customer or partner privacy. Evaluators could publish key findings without company editorial control. Narrow redactions could protect security-sensitive, privileged, commercially sensitive or third-party confidential information, but not suppress findings merely because they are unfavorable. Reviewers could disclose redactions affecting their conclusions.
Beyond its unilateral pledge, Amodei proposed coordinated pacing among frontier companies in democratic countries, followed by global coordination. These steps require wider cooperation. He explicitly distinguishes pacing from halting model training or technical progress.