METR staff surprised by HF incident, showing dangerous-capability evals failed
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-01
A quoted take argues that with even METR employees surprised by the Hugging Face incident, the project of dangerous-capabilities evals has effectively failed — it predicted nothing like it.
The poster draws an analogy to Community Notes: if the AI circle can graciously self-correct, perhaps the whole world can one day.
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