METR President Clarifies Mission: Surface AI Loss-of-Control Evidence, Not Regulate
kyliebytes · x · 2026-09-17
Chris Painter, President of METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), laid out the org's mission: since 2022, ensuring the public finds out if AI were autonomous, hard to steer, or close to "going rogue," by getting internal evidence out of AI companies to governments and the public, with work alongside OpenAI.
Quote-tweeters agree METR is valuable but warn against mistaking it for a regulator.
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