METR publishes risk assessment on whether AI is accelerating AI R&D
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-11-07
METR published a report summarizing a risk assessment conducted since August, in which a team worked with internal Anthropic information to evaluate whether AI itself is accelerating AI development. Gary Marcus amplified readers' visceral reactions ("I feel a bit sick"), suggesting the findings are striking. A first formal evaluation of recursive AI R&D acceleration based on frontier-lab internal data.
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