Gary Marcus Amplifies Attack on METR: "Great, But Not the Answer" for AI Oversight
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-14
Controversy is brewing over evaluator METR's role in AI oversight. Gary Marcus reposted that "METR is great. But METR is not the answer," while another commenter went further, arguing METR is not independent — calling it one of the most extreme AI safetyist/effective altruist groups in Silicon Valley and warning that appointing such people as AI regulators would be a disaster. The core dispute: whether safety-aligned institutions can fairly serve a quasi-regulatory function.
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