METR has only ~40 staff and is talent-starved as top researchers flock to frontier labs
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-28
TheZvi retweets a point about METR: the AI safety evaluation org has only about 40 employees and is severely talent-bottlenecked, since most capable researchers have gone to frontier labs. The author urges more people to join METR to power embedded assessments — ongoing safety evaluations embedded in model deployments — highlighting the talent imbalance between safety orgs and AI labs.
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