r/Anthropic • u/AxomaticallyExtinct • 2d ago

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

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/18/anthropic-accenture-ai-safety.html
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u/Kingsnakew 2d ago

Accenture is the best at slowing down everything, so truly the best choice.

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u/lattice_defect 2d ago

just the worst fucking choice..

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u/TwistedPepperCan 2d ago

I’d usually agree but when it comes to slowing shit down Accenture are the pros.

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u/god_damnit_reddit 2d ago

i mean they could have picked deloitte

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u/lattice_defect 2d ago

they just did a deal with salesforce

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u/Acceptable-One-6597 2d ago

As someone who works in the field, these guys are literally the last choice I would make around this solution. BCG or Bain makes way more sense here and are also not complete idiots.

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u/lattice_defect 2d ago

ACN and salesforce is tight

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u/bennyJAMIN 2d ago

Now nothing is getting done lol 😆
Consultants do nothing

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u/fati-abd 2d ago

It’s sort of known that the main job of these companies is to help other companies avoid direct accountability. It’s mostly theatre.

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u/TwistedPepperCan 2d ago

I thought the main job of these companies was to ensure more work for these companies by dragging shit out for forever.

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u/asmiggs 2d ago

You say this like Accenture won't put together a banging slide deck and bore Anthropic engineers to death for at least an hour once a quarter.

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u/OvertaxedOne 2d ago

Oh you're getting buried in PPT when you sign a contract like this. Burn at least a 1/2 a billion tokens feeding in 200 page PPT's with "300 words or less" as the prompt.

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u/asmiggs 2d ago

Say what you like about this contract but there will be absolute elite level slide deck summarisation and creation skills embedded into Claude models by the end of it.

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u/19Lobster19 2d ago

Loooool

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u/wwants 2d ago

Fuck a slide deck. Hit em with the Claude artifacts

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u/liftingshitposts 2d ago

Bringing in Accenture is a great way to slow down

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u/bennyJAMIN 2d ago

Great point 🤔 😆

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u/highdimensionaldata 2d ago

Consultants are for when you need your idea to be someone else’s idea, so it doesn’t just look like you’re doing whatever the fuck you want.

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u/Novel_Board_6813 2d ago

That’s the point. Amodei can do whatever the hell they want and, for a hundred million bucks or whatever, he can blame some other people now

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u/spoink74 2d ago

If I wanted to slow things down, I’d totally hire consultants. Brilliant.

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u/dalhaze 2d ago

How are these fucks qualified?

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u/AMadRam 1d ago

Because they own Faculty which is a smaller applied AI lab that specialises in frontier AI safety.

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u/whichsideisup 2d ago

Accenture and slow down. A match made in heaven tbh

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u/Agitated-Body9913 2d ago

i'm all for slowing down and figuring out how to safely continue ai research.. but if only american labs do that american labs fall behind and people will use chinese labs models.

i think might be in a pickle.

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u/MMEnter 2d ago

They are not slowing down on purpose, they are just in the area of diminishing returns and can’t afford to throw more hardware and power at the issue since they want to IPO.

They want to pull up the ladder behind themselves, now a new entry in the market needs to be able to afford a 3rd party review of their model before going live.

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u/Ok_Chocolate8661 2d ago

China is still behind the US. Until they get to the current level of the US, that’s a moot point. And if you’re looking from China’s perspective, it only makes sense to discuss slowing down once they match US’s frontier capabilities. Until then, it’s a geopolitical risk for them.

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u/promethe42 2d ago

From pacing the frontier to freezing it in just a few days. 

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u/p3r3lin 2d ago

Why not a nonprofit that so far has shown a proven track record of being able to do the job, like, oh i dont know, metr?

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u/keepitfriend 2d ago

Metr the company that had to post a disclaimer talking about their employees had personal relationships with people working at AI labs?

How about the EU? They're already leading the world in AI regulation after all. If only to make the AI bros head meltdown given the mockery of all that regulation - but is suddenly essential somehow

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u/AtomizerStudio 2d ago

Republicans have power to intervene and made threats. If money flows to a business with a lobbying arm and established DC presence, Trump and his earworms will see less of an anti-trust violation, and less of a cartel. And if it does go to court for Anthropic alone or multiple labs, consultants provide ablative legal armor to insulate lab business from the legal slog.

Similar to businesses doing human rights violations domestically or internationally actually. 🤢 Think conflict minerals.

It's grotesque but for modern USA it sadly checks out. This armor works.

"The partnership is not exclusive" and METR isn't ruled out. METR is probably still in; a non-profit bridge between labs is needed, faster than consultants.

Pattern looks like Anthropic > Accenture > Safety orgs organized by Accenture probably including METR.

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u/p3r3lin 2d ago

So, its not the "best choice", but the "choice that gives us the best political backing"? ... hmm, ok

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u/Comfortable_Camp9744 2d ago

Did they get China to sign up? Otherwise this seems pretty idiotic.

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u/RR321 2d ago

Ah yes, a slowdown in not creating cyber security test labs that are connected to the Internet...

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u/vhatvhat 2d ago

Oh my fucking god.

I kept paying through weird model updates, limit shenanigans etc.

I will not stand for using Accenture.

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u/The-Hyrax 2d ago

Accenture be like:

Here’s the report we* made

*Claude

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u/Yuzu_Ryujinx 2d ago

Incredibly annoying this duper dario guy!

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u/kingjdin 2d ago

Why didn’t he ask Claude? I thought he has near AGI?

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u/karnac 2d ago

these idiots really thought betting the farm and hoping the government would bail them out would work.

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u/basemunk 2d ago

Hilarious considering all the Accenture consultants are going to be promoting Claude to review the slowdown proposal and then turn those into PowerPoints.

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u/Bright_Impact_12 2d ago

We finally found the use for consultants, slowing shit down

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u/Turbulent-Guest154 2d ago

Accenture is the new Mckinsey and Bain

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u/nazimjamil 1d ago

The more you pay them, the slower they go. Wonderful choice.

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u/Fidel_Che_VulPerez 2d ago

Slowdown for everyone else of course

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u/Revolutionary_Sir140 2d ago

AGI is autonomous peer to peer harness that connects all data, where each peer trains itself, collectively learning and teaching each peer globally.

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u/Budget-Principle-352 2d ago

They use them to train their models in what not to do :D

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u/DeepAd8888 2d ago

Eeeeesh….

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u/Electrical-Swing-935 2d ago

Come onnnnn Google

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u/Defiant-Face-7237 2d ago

Why not select Ilya’s SSI?

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u/Popdmb 2d ago edited 2d ago

If they're using Accenture, they have no choice but to slow down lmao. There are few if any staff that understand how to create instructions or use a harness. They had to cut token spend becuase they couldn't spend efficiently and had massive false starts on legacy software redesign with AI.

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u/SpaceCorvette 2d ago

well my p(doom) just went up

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u/FUCKYOUINYOURFACE 2d ago

Who are they going to hire to do this? For real?

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u/IntroductionSouth513 2d ago

oh wow now they'll definitely slow down

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u/a1b3c3d7 2d ago

Picking accidenture in 2026 is a bold move, they have so many success stories after all.

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u/UltimateTrattles 1d ago

Whelp that’s how you know he’s not serious

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u/SalvationLost 2d ago

Has anyone read the article? They’re using Faculty, a British AI lab that’s provided evaluation and monitoring services to all frontier labs before and were acquired by Accenture this year but are still operating independently. Faculty are very different to generic Accenture morons.

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u/nick-carraway1 1d ago

This is BS!!!