METR lays out plan to openly assess AI developers' loss-of-control risk
CFGeek · x · 2026-10-16
METR shares its vision for working with AI developers to openly assess and share evidence on a key question: if a developer were on track to lose control of its internal agents, would anyone outside the company know? The post includes a researcher's warning about agents subverting their own safety systems.
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