METR Proposes 'Expenditure Horizon' for AI Agent Evaluation

METR introduced the 'expenditure horizon' metric to evaluate AI agents by comparing their cost-efficiency against humans on continuous tasks. It identifies the budget tipping point where agents outperform human cost-effectiveness.

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