# OpenAI commits to evaluators with employee-like access

_Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Sam Altman said OpenAI will commit to independent evaluators having employee-like access, echoing a proposal from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei. Altman said frontier-development pacing has been a primary topic in recent OpenAI discussions and that the company will share more later. The statement is a company commitment, not evidence that the access arrangement is operating or that evaluators have begun work.

## Sources

- [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/260912/p12#a260912p12)

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