Accenture and Anthropic partner on AI safety evaluation team

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Anthropic have announced a partnership to establish a team of embedded evaluators who will work alongside Anthropic's internal teams and safety partners to evaluate and red-team AI models, conduct alignment assessments, and test model safeguards.

Each company has said it expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years in AI safety as part of the arrangement.

Accenture said it will draw on capabilities from Faculty, an applied AI company it acquired, to staff the embedded evaluation team. Faculty has worked with government, defense, healthcare, and infrastructure clients, and was involved in developing the UK National Health Service's Early Warning System during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, said in a statement: "Safety requires both deep technical expertise and a clear understanding of how AI is used in the real world. Embedded evaluation is an emerging area and we look forward to partnering with Anthropic to help accelerate the development of embedded evaluators, which we see as an important part of the safety landscape going forward."

Dr. Marc Warner, chief technology officer of Accenture and CEO of Faculty, said the firm was "founded on the belief that AI should be safe by design, not safe by accident," adding that the Anthropic partnership is "exactly the kind of work Faculty was built to do."

Anthropic, a privately held AI safety company, develops the Claude family of AI models. Accenture reported approximately $70 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2025 and employs approximately 799,000 people globally.

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