Audit: AI safety org METR raised $71M in 6 months, a 5x jump, with only $350K traceable
kevinnbass · x · 2026-09-17
kevinnbass says he audited all public records: METR, the AI safety org promoted by Dario Amodei, raised $71M over the past six months — a sudden 5x jump. Yet only $350K of that $71M can be traced to known sources, raising transparency questions about how the premier AI safety org is funded. He published the audit figures on GitHub.
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