Anthropic's proposed safety evaluator METR labeled "woke" by critics
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-17
Per Polymarket, METR — the AI safety evaluator proposed in connection with Anthropic — has been labeled "woke" by critics over alleged pronoun usage, support for open borders, and ties to effective altruism.
The flap shows AI safety evaluation bodies getting pulled into ideological battles, with evaluators' neutrality and institutional backgrounds becoming a political flashpoint.
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