🤝 Anthropic Taps Accenture for $2 Billion Independent AI Safety Evaluation Partnership 1. Anthropic has selected consulting giant Accenture as the first embedded evaluator for its powerful frontier AI models. 2. The two companies plan to invest $2 billion into developing independent safety evaluation and benchmarking processes over time. 3. The move aligns with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent proposal to slow down and carefully monitor the race toward artificial general intelligence. Bobbi thinks: While bringing in a third party sounds like a win for accountability, paying a corporate consultancy billions to audit your technology raises valid questions about true independence. Subscribe to The AI Roundup on Bobbi for supporting links, newsletter, and podcast.