Anthropic employee joins METR; next day METR named third-party evaluator

NielsRogge · x · 2026-09-13

A pointed timeline: an Anthropic employee quits to join eval org METR, and the very next day Anthropic nominates METR as its "third-party evaluator." The jab highlights the revolving door between frontier labs and the orgs evaluating them, casting doubt on how independent "independent" evaluation really is — right as Dario Amodei calls for independent evaluators and OpenAI says it will follow suit.

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