Anthropic's planned embedded evalA repeatable test for AI quality — a set of tasks plus scoring — used the way software teams use test suites, because model output is too variable to judge by eyeballing.Full definition → partnership would give outside evaluators access comparable to employees, allowing them to observe training and deployment decisions as models develop. Its Accenture announcement describes evaluating safeguards and checking whether safety commitments are followed. That access could expose issues a finished-model test misses. The governance arrangement remains consequential: Anthropic will directly fund the work, and standards for evaluator access and reporting were still unsettled when the partnership was announced.
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eval — A repeatable test for AI quality — a set of tasks plus scoring — used the way software teams use test suites, because model output is too variable to judge by eyeballing.
alignment — The work of making AI systems actually pursue what their builders and users intend, rather than something subtly or dangerously different.
