AI Safety Community Splits Over METR's Independence

Heidy Khlaal accused Anthropic of regulatory capture, claiming METR's financial and ideological ties to the lab compromise its audits. Joshua Saxe pushed back, defending METR as one of the few standout nonprofit AI safety organizations.

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