Anthropic CEO Calls for Government Involvement and Third-Party AI Evaluations

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says governments need to play a direct role in how advanced AI systems are evaluated and governed.
“We need to have the government in the room,” Amodei said.
He also argued that the next step is for multiple AI companies to agree to independent third-party evaluations.
The idea is to move beyond companies assessing the safety and capabilities of their own models.
Independent evaluators could create a more consistent framework for testing advanced systems before they are deployed at scale.
For the AI industry, that would represent a major shift toward external oversight rather than relying primarily on voluntary internal safeguards.
The broader question is whether leading AI labs can agree on common evaluation standards before governments impose stricter rules themselves.