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Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), a startup co-founded by early Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, has raised
Key takeaways
- AIUC raised a $40 million Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital.
- AIUC has developed a testing standard called AIUC-1 to audit AI agents.
- AIUC runs agents through 5,000 tests covering jailbreaks, hallucinations, and data leaks.
- AI is getting harder to adopt and control as it gets smarter.
- Enterprises decline to deploy AI because they cannot guarantee what a system will do.
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), a startup co-founded by early Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic. This brings the company's total funding to $55 million. AIUC has developed a third-party audit and certification standard called AIUC-1 to test enterprise AI agents against risks like jailbreaks, hallucinations, and data leaks, using a suite of 5,000 automated tests verified by humans.
It establishes an independent auditing framework to help enterprises safely deploy autonomous AI agents.
In their words
“The surprising thing about AI is that it becomes harder to adopt and harder to control as AI gets smarter, not easier”
“Banks, hospitals, governments and militaries no longer decline to deploy AI because a model isn’t smart enough. They decline because they’ve made commitments to their own customers about what a system will and won’t do, and nobody can currently guarantee that.”
By the numbers
- $40M
- Series A funding raised by AIUC
- $15M
- Seed funding previously raised by AIUC
- $55M
- Total funding raised by AIUC to date
- 250
- Security and risk leaders in AIUC's consortium
- 5,000
- Tests run on agents to evaluate behavior
How it unfolded
- Rajiv Dattani serves as COO of METR
- Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quits over AI risks
- AIUC announces $40 million Series A funding
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Common questions
- What happened with Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company?
- AIUC raised a $40 million Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital.
- Where can I read the original report?
- Read the full report at Techcrunch.
