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title: "AI Safety"
description: "3 posts about AI Safety, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# AI Safety
> 3 posts about AI Safety, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [An update on independent evaluators](https://yomu.fyi/post/an-update-on-independent-evaluators.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 15, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic has begun providing employee-like access to METR, a nonprofit evaluator of frontier AI models, as part of its commitment to independent third-party assessment. The company signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence and aims to close the gap between what evaluators and the company itself understand about its systems. To evaluate frontier models, evaluators require expertise in capabilities assessment, independence, deep access to training and safeguards, and freedom to publish results. Anthropic defined three tiers of access: the first tier allows publication only with company approval, the second tier permits publication without approval but with possible redactions, and the third tier grants employee-like access with similar publication rights as the second. METR is currently at the third tier, while SecureBio operates at the first tier, and collaborations with Accenture and Faculty are in early stages.


### [Preparing for the 2026 US midterms](https://yomu.fyi/post/preparing-for-the-2026-us-midterms.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 14, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic detailed strengthened election safeguards for Claude ahead of the 2026 US midterms, based on a week-long analysis of 250,000 conversations to understand usage patterns and prevent misuse. About 5.75% of US Claude.ai conversations touch on politics, 0.51% on elections, and 0.01% ask for voting recommendations, with violations at 0.002%; election-specific queries are expected to increase closer to Election Day. New features include TurboVote banners, state-specific voting information from Democracy Works, and live election-night results. Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5 scored 99% on political evenhandedness, but independent reviews found uneven hedging and unsolicited caveats in some responses. Anthropic partnered with ISD and McCain Institute to pressure-test defenses, added classifiers for multi-step misuse, and banned accounts used to produce content favoring adversarial narratives.


### [Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the Government of Singapore](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-opens-singapore-office-and-signs-mou-with-the-government-of.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Author: Anthropic
- Published: Oct 14, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic opened a new office in Singapore, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed an MOU with the Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information on AI safety, security, and model evaluation. The MOU, signed by co-founder Ben Mann and Permanent Secretary Kai Fong Chng, also covers research on AI adoption and responsible use across public and private sectors. Claude already powers services used by millions daily through organizations like GovTech, DBS, Grab, and Sea; Grab’s BriX assistant saves 40,000 hours quarterly. Singapore ranks second globally in Claude.ai usage relative to population, at nearly six times expected levels, and over 1,500 GovTech engineers use Claude Code. The office is hiring and plans technical exchanges, AI skills strengthening, and support for small and medium businesses.