Anthropic and Accenture to invest $1B+ in frontier AI evals, drawing conflict-of-interest jabs
mallow610 · x · 2026-09-19
Anthropic announced a partnership with Accenture for independent evaluation of frontier AI, with both expecting to invest at least $1 billion over five years. Timnit Gebru flagged potential conflicts: Accenture acquired an x-risk auditing firm funded by Jaan Tallinn — the same investor who led Anthropic's Series A, funds METR, and co-founded the Future of Life Institute.
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