Critics question METR's independence in Anthropic's 'Pace the Frontier' pledge
kristoph · x · 2026-09-13
Critic ruima argues Anthropic's "Pacing the Frontier" pledge is less than it sounds: no commitment to slow training or capability research, just third-party monitoring—by METR, a catastrophic-risk nonprofit that has evaluated Anthropic's models and even embedded researchers there. While METR isn't Anthropic-funded, the critic says picking a referee from the same small AI-safety ecosystem and proposing it as an industry template undermines 'independent oversight.'
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