🇺🇸Anthropic proposed continuous employee-level access for independent model evaluators; OpenAI committed to adopting the measure.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed that leading AI companies give embedded third-party evaluation teams continuous access comparable to that available to employees. The proposal specifies an ongoing evaluation arrangement, rather than merely a one-time external review.

Amodei said slowing capability development should not mean stopping model training or technical progress, but allowing sufficient time for alignment, safeguards, and third-party verification. The reports say he cited AI self-improvement and a reported OpenAI–Hugging Face agent incident as reasons for concern; they do not provide independent technical evidence about that incident.

The broader proposal also called for frontier-AI companies in democratic countries to coordinate common safety standards. A separate message records his call for the United States and other democratic governments to seek coordination with others.

Altman endorsed employee-like access for independent evaluators and said OpenAI would implement it, with more information to follow; Elon Musk also publicly agreed with Amodei’s position. These are proposals and commitments, not evidence that evaluator teams had already received access or that companies had implemented a coordinated training slowdown.