I'm usually a pretty private person, but given my face has been in the news(!) I wanted to share a bit about myself. Before moving to SF I was a British diplomat. I worked on missile defense and CBRN defense at @UKDELNATO during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I moved to SF to work more directly on making sure humanity gets to maximally benefit from the paradigm-shifting technology that is AI.  I worked at Open Philanthropy (who were early to AI Safety) and FutureHouse (who are trying to build “The AI Scientist”). I have always wanted the world to benefit from the full potential of this technology.  I want to make sure that we navigate the next few years and decades as safely as possible. I want us to maximize economic prosperity and for democratic values to flourish. And that is why I feel such pride about the work we’re doing at METR. There are strong business incentives for the developers of frontier AI to not be maximally transparent, and whilst I have no ideological commitment to who plays this role, there need to be experts outside of companies providing the public some transparency into what they are building.  METR’s culture isn’t intellectually homogenous. Disagreements are encouraged. I work next to critics and skeptics of regulation as well as advocates. To spend a day in the METR office is to understand that, above all else, we care about Doing Science Well. How does one understand model capabilities? How can we make sure these models are controllable and monitorable?  So yeah, that’s a bit about me! Here’s a way better photo than the one they splashed on the front page of the Post. Scandalously, it was taken in London.