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Anthropic(Anthropic公司，一家AI初创企业) has granted external evaluators(外部评估者) “employee-like access”(类员工权限；准员工级访问权限) to assess the risks of its models, following through on(履行；兑现) a commitment(承诺) to increase safeguards(防护措施；安全防线) over concerns the technology could run catastrophically(灾难性地) out of control(失控).

METR(Model Evaluation and Threat Research，模型评估与威胁研究，一家非营利组织), a nonprofit(非营利组织) that has worked with leading labs(头部实验室；领先实验室) including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, now has a team embedded(嵌入式驻场；深度融合) in the Claude maker( Claude开发者/制造者) ’s office with access to its hardware(硬件) and internal systems(内部系统).

A greater role for third-party evaluators(第三方评估者) is among the main concrete steps(具体措施；切实步骤) the labs have proposed in response to rising concern(日益加剧的担忧) about the dangers more capable AI systems could pose to(对……构成威胁) the economy, cyber security(网络安全) and humanity at large(全人类；广大民众).

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Close to 1 billion meetings take place each day around the world. CEOs(首席执行官) spend nearly three-quarters of their workdays in meetings. Planning for and spearheading(领导；主导) meetings eats up(消耗；耗尽) the lion’s share(最大份额；大部分) of managers’ time.

In much of the industrialized world, meetings are both the metronomes(节拍器；此处比喻“节奏控制者”) and menaces(威胁；祸害) of people’s working lives. Given the enormous time spent in workplace meetings, do we know what they accomplish or how to make them as worthwhile(值得的；有价值的) as possible?

For decades, the answer was… not really. Meetings weren’t a particularly accessible(易接近的；易懂的) subject of study. But that has changed. Once a tiny niche(利基的；小众的) area, “meeting science”(会议科学) is a growing specialization among organizational(组织的) and social psychologists(社会心理学家).

The field is accelerating(加速发展) as archived(存档的) virtual meetings(视频会议；虚拟会议) provide vast swaths(大片；大量) of data. And it is providing a fascinating(迷人的；极有趣的) window into human behavior. Meeting to talk helps fulfill(满足；实现) basic human needs to connect(连接；沟通), communicate(交流), and cooperate(合作).

People have long come together—in caves(洞穴), fields(田野), market squares(集市广场), and town halls(市政厅；市民大会)—to get something done, share ideas, get on the same page(达成共识；想法一致), or just to remark on(评论；谈论) the weather.

But meeting scientists define their subject as gatherings(聚会；集会) of people “with some goal or structure to the event,” says organizational psychologist Liana Kreamer(莉亚娜·克雷默，人名) of the Florida Institute of Technology(佛罗里达理工学院), who coauthored(合著) a review(综述；评论文章) of over three decades of meeting science in the 2026 Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior(《组织心理学与组织行为学年度评论》).