The key question for Anthropic's third-party evals: what happens when they find problems?
neal_lathia · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to Anthropic's commitment to third-party evaluator access, Neal Lathia asks what actually happens if evaluators find something unacceptable—drawing an analogy to banks, where fines end some firms while others pay and carry on. He notes third-party involvement could lead to better system design long-term, or a patchwork of repeated manual fixes, making deadlines important.
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