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Dario Amodei calls for embedded AI watchdogs as the frontier safety debate sharpens

9/19/2026

The question of who should scrutinize frontier artificial intelligence has become a live industry dispute, with companies reporting difficulties controlling their own agents.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has entered that debate with a concrete proposal: give independent third-party evaluators ongoing, employee-like access to AI development pipelines from the inside.

In a recent letter, Amodei proposed that each frontier AI company commit to embedded evaluators whose role would cover safety practice adherence, incident reporting, and alignment assessment across training processes and completed models.

He cited METR, an AI safety testing laboratory that describes itself as evaluating frontier models to help companies and society understand AI capabilities and associated risks.

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