RedWood/METR evals staffed with ex-lab insiders, warns of a "revolving door" regulatory cartel

beffjezos · x · 2026-09-13

Beff Jezos argues that RedWood Research and METR evals are full of researchers with large equity bags from their time at major labs, predicting a "revolving door" between big labs and these "auditor NGOs" that would form a regulatory cartel protecting insiders' joint interests — a direct pushback on lab-led independent evaluation proposals.

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