Asa Cooper-Stickwell joins METR's embedded monitoring assessment team
idavidrein · x · 2026-10-23
Researcher Asa Cooper-Stickwell announced he has joined METR's embedded monitoring assessment team, working with idavidrein — going inside AI labs to test their control systems — and relocated to the Bay Area. METR recently ran a Frontier Risk Report pilot (Feb–Mar 2026) with nonpublic model access from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and OpenAI, and this hire signals an expansion of its internal-monitoring evaluation line.
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