METR is now load-bearing, but US CAISI and UK AISI are absent from AI safety talks

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-13

Researcher xeophon laments that in current frontier AI evaluation discussions, everyone talks about METR while US CAISI and UK AISI — the official government AI safety institutes — go unmentioned.

The observation highlights the evaluation ecosystem's state: independent org METR has become "load-bearing" via frontier lab partnerships, while government-side evaluators have little presence in public discourse.

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