Josh Saxe defends METR against security critics in AI safety community spat
nptacek · x · 2026-09-15
AI safety researcher Joshua Saxe pushed back on a trend of security practitioners vilifying METR, calling it one of the few non-profit centers of AI safety excellence, staffed by people who gave up generational wealth and produced rigorous papers. The quoted @basedjensen counters that METR and its EA-aligned figures are technically weak, acted in bad faith around the hfoai incident, and that security critics aren't going far enough. The exchange highlights a widening rift inside the AI safety community.
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