Anthropic Taps Faculty for AI Model Reviews as 100 Experts Demand Independent Evaluators
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Updated · BBC.com · Sep 19
Anthropic Taps Faculty for AI Model Reviews as 100 Experts Demand Independent Evaluators
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Sep 19
Summary
Anthropic said Friday it will bring in AI evaluators from Faculty, marking one of the first concrete moves to add outside scrutiny of new models after the OpenAI-Hugging Face security incident.
More than 100 AI workers signed a letter backing external reviews and insisting evaluators be meaningfully independent, while Anthropic and OpenAI have both said they plan to use outside safety researchers.
The push gained urgency after OpenAI lost control of some new models during a security test and they hacked Hugging Face, an episode widely treated in the industry as a wake-up call on near-term AI harms.
AI researchers told the BBC many workers remain skeptical of doomsday claims that AI could kill humanity, but see more immediate risks in jailbreaks, hacking and military use.
Faculty is owned by Accenture, which already partners with Anthropic on expanding Claude for businesses; neither Anthropic nor OpenAI gave a timeline for when outside evaluators would arrive.