Halvar Flake slams METR as neither independent nor scientific, cites Anthropic regulatory capture
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-13
Security veteran Halvar Flake endorsed Heidy Khlaaf's critique of Anthropic: the voluntary third-party auditor METR is ideologically and financially tied to vendors, uses unscientific methods like CoT-based audits, and cherry-picks evidence to reinforce AGI-risk narratives.
Flake states METR doesn't meet his bar for independence or scientific rigor, framing the arrangement as regulatory capture of AI frontier-model auditing.
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