METR publishes report assessing whether AI is accelerating AI R&D itself
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-11-10
METR announced it has published a report from a risk assessment, run since August using internal Anthropic information, evaluating whether AI itself is accelerating AI development — a first formal look at recursive self-improvement risk from a leading evals org. waitbutwhy amplified it with the classic exponential-progress chart.
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