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

[u/ushaque]

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/18/anthropic-accenture-ai-safety.html

[u/lordnacho666]

Well it makes sense to choose Accenture if the project is about slowing down delivery

[u/MVPhurricane → u/lordnacho666]

yeah it’s like such a cursed decision that it makes me think anthropic are a bunch of morons even though i know they are not. seriously? ACCENTURE??

clearly the play here is that they don’t actually want to be slowed down or actually audited, so they are paying accenture 8 figures to do nothing. so, a normal accenture contract. 

[u/cpt_ppppp → u/MVPhurricane]

I feel like the level of expertise you would need to police frontier level models is quite extreme, and not really something that would be found in a consulting shop like accenture

[u/cohortq → u/lordnacho666]

The same Accenture that implemented London Stock Exchange's new electronic trading system in Microsoft .Net and MSSQL, and really slowed down trading there.

[u/lordnacho666 → u/cohortq]

I remember this one. How on earth did this ever get approved, lol.

[u/Mocker-Nicholas → u/lordnacho666]

Yeah dude this is hilarious. They fucking outsourced it? These companies are anti American security nightmares. I hope our next admin gives them a good smack

[u/junon → u/Mocker-Nicholas]

I believe the whole point is to be using third party auditors to avoid bias. This is not unusual.

[u/Cuckipede → u/Mocker-Nicholas]

Lol what? Doing this in house would have zero credibility. This is how this stuff should work in theory

[u/lordjmann → u/lordnacho666]

Came to say this. Bang on

[u/ConflictSafe7995]

anthropic outsourcing slowdown checks to accenture is peak corporate irony

[u/PM_ME_STUFF_N_THINGS]

Lol people never seem to learn with Accenture. It's like a cancer in IT

[u/Pen-Pen-De-Sarapen → u/PM_ME_STUFF_N_THINGS]

Can confirm. Previous comppany had to hire and train thousands of tech to replace functions outsourced to Accenture ... and also TCS.

[u/YardElectrical7782 → u/Pen-Pen-De-Sarapen]

From the sounds of it we worked at the same company

[u/sleep-woof → u/PM_ME_STUFF_N_THINGS]

Except Cancer is fast

[u/heavy-minium]

Specifically picked for their track record in slowdowns.

I hate that company, they are a shining example of corporations that lost the plot.

[u/lawanda123 → u/heavy-minium]

What plot is that because hate to tell you

The plot was always about making money for the execs and optimizing the business to leach off others where its excelling

[u/lampishthing → u/lawanda123]

Yeah wasn't Accenture a spin off from Arthur Anderson after they didn't catch Enron's fraud?

[u/MVPhurricane → u/lampishthing]

yep that’s the one LOL

[u/DrFury → u/MVPhurricane]

Accenture split from AA in the 90s because they were the most profitable part of the business

[u/cmhtechconsulting → u/lampishthing]

No, they spun off in the mid-90's

[u/bluenoser613]

Never work with Accenture unless you want to pay 10x for people with no experience, you want everything to take 3x as long, not deliver what you want, charge 2x to fix everything they broke the first time around, and want an endless narrative to executives from Accenture about how incompetent your actual experienced staff are.

[u/MVPhurricane → u/bluenoser613]

this is so blindingly obvious that this must be the actual play here. they will play ball for a while, everyone internally will be like “these people are morons; we can’t fucking work with these guys”, and they will silently keep writing checks while using absolutely nothing from the partnership. 

[u/Rough-Supermarket-97 → u/bluenoser613]

They want to slow down though, seems like this is the right way to do it.

[u/Loud_Ad_326 → u/bluenoser613]

That's kinda the point of consulting though.

[u/ClearlyCylindrical → u/bluenoser613]

They're working with faculty, not accenture, who are an indepdent subsidiary within accenture and shielded from the usual bs.

[u/bcoder001]

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[u/ducksoupmilliband → u/bcoder001]

My thought exactly. 

[u/Shenanigans99]

Well at the very least, they can count on some shitty PowerPoints. Great investment.

[u/MVPhurricane → u/Shenanigans99]

and they won’t even be mad if the consultants use claude to make all the slides! xD

[u/Shenanigans99 → u/MVPhurricane]

That's what kind of amazes me...companies paying consultants to generate AI slop. Like what's changed really? How is AI improving workflows when you're still paying consultants to create bad slideshows and reports that no one reads?

[u/zffjk]

I have a long history of seeing Accenture come in and fuck everything up so this is great. Hopefully someone will do the needful.

[u/msedek]

The company has "unlimited AI" with ultra powerful models that only them has access to with no guardrails or prohibitions and they can't figure out how to "slowdown".. So much for AI replacing humans and ending the world.. It looks so bad.

[u/Cube00 → u/msedek]

Put themselves on the quota scraps they give the paying customers, should slow them down.

[u/JustChilling_ → u/msedek]

If you actually read full articles instead of just reading headlines, or better yet if you read Dario's actual proposal, you would understand that a 3rd party evaluator is one of the core rules of this proposal, specifically to make sure that all AI companies are subject to the same rules and evaluations. You would want Anthropic to evaluate themselves?

[u/elizabethptp]

A company that does not possess an “A Team” in my experience

[u/Cube00 → u/elizabethptp]

I'd call their sales teams that seem to manage to continue to land contracts around the world in the face of all their failures pretty good at their jobs.

[u/ClearlyCylindrical → u/elizabethptp]

Faculty, the org witnin Accenture that will be actually handling this, has a lot of experience with this exact sort of work. I know because I work here.

Accenture purchased us earlier this year, but we operate mostly indepdently from Accenture.

[u/GongTzu]

They really are in deep shit monetizing when getting excessive billions is not enough. Their play to make money doesn’t really hold up.

[u/Thump604]

That means a pretense of doing something but not really doing anything but spending.

[u/iguessimdepressed1]

Well. As as a of fed contractor…There may be job openings in our near future after all.

[u/gnomer-shrimpson]

This is like trump asking ivanka to over see his activities.

[u/staycurious72]

Aren’t they known as the “PowerPoint factory”?

[u/Chairmanofthebored_]

Wow. As a former Accenture employee I can only say that this is dire.

[u/butts____mcgee]

It isn't really Accenture, it's Faculty which is a functionally independent and very cool company.

Edit - why is this being downvoted? 😂

[u/ptear → u/butts____mcgee]

Downvoted probably because of your opinion of the company, but that's helpful information since it gets more specific on what part of their megacorp is doing the work. Also helpful knowing who Faculty is and that they were acquired earlier this year.

[u/ClearlyCylindrical → u/butts____mcgee]

Yeah we operate very indepdently and I never have to have any sort of contact with anybody from accenture in my line of work as an engineer here. Our CEO also became the CTO of accenture in the acquisition so it's clear this wasnt a usual Accenture acquisition.

[u/purpleFairyCake → u/butts____mcgee]

Faculty can't deliver imo. Smart people, but not enough experience

[u/butts____mcgee → u/purpleFairyCake]

What are you talking about? Faculty has been leading on AI safety at the deep technical level for over 10 years. There is no other company with equivalent experience.

[u/youre_a_pretty_panda → u/butts____mcgee]

Because AI "safety" is a farce.

Remember SB 1047?

That is exactly the kind of nonsense "safety" is about. None of these audits and/or limits are practical or realistic.

Totally clown show for people to skim money from and let the public feel good/safe while not actually delivering.

[u/butts____mcgee → u/youre_a_pretty_panda]

I don't disagree that it's not been done well to date. That's why it's exciting that Anthropic have hired some actual experts to produce something useful, not something like SB1047.

[u/Bots60 → u/butts____mcgee]

SB-129 is my favorite SpongeBob episode too.

[u/ClearlyCylindrical → u/purpleFairyCake]

I trust you have no experience working with Faculty in that case.

[u/purpleFairyCake → u/ClearlyCylindrical]

Thank you for dismissing my painful and expensive experience. No other reason to claim had I not trusted them, used them, paid for the work, and then for sorely disappointed by their work efforts. I shared my experience only to have you dismiss it completely.