Anthropic gives METR researchers employee-level access to assess its models

Anthropic announced on October 15 that six researchers from the nonprofit METR will get employee-level access, including internal tools, to independently assess its models and risk management, and METR can publish findings without Anthropic's approval, with redactions only in a few predefined categories. TechCrunch

TechCrunchAnthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access | TechCrunchMETR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Does this kind of embedded outside access make AI safety claims more credible, and what would you still want to see?