John Strand on AI labs should give independent evaluat…

John Strand

Owner of Black Hills Information Security and cybersecurity practitioner.

It’s rare to see a company voluntarily give an independent third party employee-level access to conduct research, evaluate safety practices, and assess risk. I hope this becomes standard across the companies building frontier models.

AI Verified (Oct 19, 2026)

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John Strand, Owner of Black Hills Information Security, quoted in Jordyn Alger, “Anthropic Gives METR Team ‘Employee-Like Access’,” Security magazine, October 19, 2026.

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AI Verified It explicitly endorses independent third-party employee-level access to evaluate safety and hopes it becomes standard across frontier-model companies. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 31min ago

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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Strand says employee-level independent access should become standard across frontier-model companies. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 31min ago

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AI Verified Security Magazine directly attributes the exact quote to John Strand in its October 19 article (pp. 104–109). · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 31min ago

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