Debate erupts over whether METR can be impartial in auditing Anthropic's models
jessi_cata · x · 2026-09-16
A heated X debate questions Anthropic's arrangement with METR, the nonprofit that evaluates frontier models. segyges clarified he isn't claiming METR is hopelessly conflicted, but has specific concerns about the mechanism. jessicata adds that in any other industry, a big corporation recommending a supposedly independent nonprofit as its own regulator would raise immediate suspicion.
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