IPO-bound Anthropic is partnering with Accenture to help evaluate the safety of its AI models, a step toward implementing CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow the pace of frontier AI development. Both companies expect to invest at least $1 billion each in building capacity in AI safety over the next five years. Under the partnership, a team of embedded evaluators will work alongside Anthropic's internal teams and safety partners to evaluate and red-team models, conduct alignment assessments, and test model safeguards. Anthropic said that unlike today's external evaluators, embedded evaluators will work inside AI companies with access comparable to an employee's, allowing them to watch models take shape in training, follow decisions governing how those models are built and deployed, and speak directly to employees.