Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change.
Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The comments came after Jacob Coxon, another researcher, stoked those fears nationwide with a viral post announcing his own departure from Anthropic and accusing the top AI labs of “gambling with our lives.”
METR, all of a sudden, is in the middle of AI’s biggest story. Formed in 2022, it had already worked…
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