Anthropic and Accenture: who checks the AI safety evaluator?

The Augur Dispatch · Sep 19, 2026 · 8m · transcript

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Anthropic's outside evaluator also helps customers deploy Claude. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion in evaluation capacity over five years, but reporting standards remain unsettled. Augur examines what a buyer should ask before treating the new arrangement as independent assurance.

The episode also distinguishes OpenAI's earlier on-site incident investigation from its newer embedded-investigator pledge, explains why model-based judges need calibration, examines Trail of Bits' audit tooling, and considers Nvidia's argument about missing robotics data.

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