Anthropic evals researcher Joe Benton leaves for AI safety org METR
AdrienLE · x · 2026-09-04
Joe Benton has left Anthropic to join METR, where he'll work on embedded assessment of AI risks. Samuel Albanie notes an emerging trend of researchers moving from Anthropic to independent eval organizations like METR.
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