Kevin Bass calls for Congress to investigate Anthropic over safety-eval conflicts of interest
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-15
Kevin Bass urged Congress to investigate Anthropic, alleging a mutually reinforcing web of funding ties between Anthropic, safety orgs like METR/Redwood Research, and funder Coefficient that could compromise third-party eval independence. The thread cautions most funding paths remain unverified and timing alone doesn't prove biased evals.
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