Anthropic has selected Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help slow AI development, following CEO Dario Amodei’s three-step proposal published on Sept. 12 to allow safeguards amid warnings of potential catastrophic harm from swift, unchecked development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded positively, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did not, arguing such regulation was not necessary. Amodei wrote that AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI’s growing ability to build the next generation of AI, a dynamic called recursive self-improvement, and left unchecked it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems. The first step is independent evaluators with employee-like access, which Anthropic had already unilaterally committed to. On Friday, Anthropic announced partnering with Accenture and its AI business Faculty in evaluating and red-teaming models, conducting alignment assessments and testing model safeguards. Details are still being worked out, as embedded evaluation is new. Anthropic and Accenture each expect to invest at least $1 billion over the next five years. Anthropic will fund Accenture’s work directly given urgency. The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks. Accenture’s Faculty is expert in testing and evaluating models for some of the world’s leading AI labs and building complex AI systems that are safe and ethical by design. Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, said embedded