Anthropic safety researcher Joe Benton leaves for METR, warns labs are outpacing safety on self-improvement
AryHHAry · x · 2026-09-12
Joe Benton left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago and joined METR the next day. His argument: frontier labs are accelerating systems capable of recursive self-improvement while safety investment lags due to competitive costs, and the public may never know when a lab has a capability spike or loss of control. He calls for disclosure on self-improvement progress, incident reporting, minimum standards, and independent verification.
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