Stanford's Manning: METR's reliance on frontier labs creates client capture
chrmanning · x · 2026-09-17
Stanford professor Christopher Manning argues that METR's business depends on working with frontier labs, creating a client-capture problem: despite financial independence, METR cannot risk evaluations that might annoy its clients, whereas Stanford is structurally free of such dependence.
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