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2026-09-18 · CNBC

Anthropic selects Accenture as first embedded evaluator to help implement Amodei's slowdown proposal

Anthropic on Friday announced it has selected Accenture as an embedded evaluator, the company's first concrete step toward implementing CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development. Both Anthropic and Accenture have agreed to invest at least $1 billion to "building capacity in this area" over the next five years, according to a release. But Anthropic said that given the "importance and urgency," it will fund Accenture's work directly. "Long-term, we think funding should come from pooled or government sources, as we called for in our Advanced AI Framework in June," Anthropic said. "As neither exists today, we plan to work with different evaluators under different funding arrangements.

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