AI Safety Researcher on Why He Joined METR: Meeting the People Doing the Work
CFGeek · x · 2026-09-16
A frontier AI safety researcher shares what convinced him to work in the field and specifically at METR: meeting the people actually doing the work. He thanks @ChrisPainterYup and the team for taking a chance on him, and says he wakes up excited to go to the office and figure out what our AI future holds.
The quoted context notes he was invited to the inaugural Curve conference, where he met fellow SB 1047 obsessives and began discussing what he should do next.
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