Gary Marcus slams Anthropic's Accenture eval deal amid METR independence concerns
mjdramstead · x · 2026-09-20
Gary Marcus sharply criticized Dario Amodei: in response to complaints that METR is too close to Anthropic, Dario struck an evaluation deal with Accenture — a company Anthropic is already doing business with. Marcus likens it to the Lakers paying for the refs' vacations, questioning the independence of frontier model evaluation ecosystems.
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