Anthropic researcher Joe Benton leaves to join METR for embedded AI risk assessment
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-03
Anthropic researcher Joe Benton announced he left the lab last week to join METR, where he will work on embedded assessment of AI risks. He called his time at Anthropic great but said he would move on if something more impactful came up. The move, amplified by Lisa Söder's retweet, highlights talent flowing from frontier labs to independent evaluation organizations.
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