NY Post blasts Anthropic's safety proposal as Amodei pushes employee-level access for METR
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-16
Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" arguing that frontier AI labs should grant METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), a nonprofit, "employee-like access" to independently evaluate safety efforts on advanced models.
- The New York Post attacked the proposal in a scathing piece, framing METR's independence skeptically: it traces back to Effective Altruism, the movement associated with Anthropic early backer Sam Bankman-Fried, calling Amodei's team "super-woke globalists."
- Commenters like basedjensen argue the backlash shows this kind of framing makes open discussion of AI safety harder.
The episode highlights how third-party evaluator proposals have become a flashpoint in AI governance debates.
Related event: Amodei Proposes On-Site AI Inspectors, Altman Backs the Idea(2 posts)→
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