AI safety talent surge debated: is METR's hiring boom really field-wide growth?
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-09
Chris Painter says AI safety is seeing a flood of new talent, especially outside research roles. Austin pushes back, noting the impression may be drawn mostly from METR's own recruiting success, where the org's outsized salience could be a confounder, and evidence from other orgs doesn't yet show a clear effect.
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