METR embeds at OpenAI for 3 weeks to assess its internal agent misalignment monitoring
sjgadler · x · 2026-10-23
Two employees from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI this summer as an embedded assessment pilot, evaluating the systems OpenAI uses to monitor for misalignment from its internal agents. A brief public write-up is now available — one of the first times external evaluators have audited a frontier lab's internal monitoring stack from the inside.
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