Daniel Kokotajlo(@DKokotajlo):Yep. It's especially intense because many of these people could easily get safety-flavored jobs at AI cos, so they could be doing almost the same kind of research except being paid several times more. But they don't because they believe in there being independent orgs like metr as a check against the companies.

2026.09.17 13:18

Yep. It's especially intense because many of these people could easily get safety-flavored jobs at AI cos, so they could be doing almost the same kind of research except being paid several times more. But they don't because they believe in there being independent orgs like metr as a check against the companies.

Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem

2026.09.16 18:16

To be clear, METR staff are almost entirely folks giving up a lot of money they could make elsewhere in order to work on rigorous AI safety evals and analysis. The folks criticizing them are largely cynics who can't imagine what civic-mindedness looks like.

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