I think the team at Accenture is better-placed to do this well than most people realize, and some skilled scarce people should be applying to these roles (in addition to METR):

This means so much ❤️ The best part of what I do is the founders that I get to work with and getting to be a tiny part of their enormous journeys. @RafelJorda it has been such a pleasure to work with you - congrats on the $348m of fresh funding for @Open_Cosmos!

We’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators at Anthropic. Both we and Accenture expect to invest at least $1 billion to build capacity in this area over the next five years.

Important new essay from Dario that calls for coordination at the frontier so that operational excellence (e.g. security), alignment and evaluation don’t fall behind capabilities. As Dario says, the role of democracies is vital; there’s a big part for US allies globally to play👇

ARIA would simply not have taken off without Matt. He was the precious metal catalyst -- reducing the activation barrier and 100x-ing the strength & speed of reaction. Hands down the board chair I've ever worked with. Thank you for your service @matthewclifford 🙏

It’s been a huge privilege to serve as @ARIA_research's founding Chair over the last four years. Having completed my first full term last month, I have decided to step down to ensure my new role at Anthropic doesn’t become a distraction from ARIA’s incredible work. I have often said that ARIA is one of the things that makes me most optimistic about Britain. It’s a bold national experiment that’s paying off: ARIA has become a beacon for global talent and is building a portfolio of programmes - across neurotech, climate science, life sciences and more - that I have no doubt will change the world. There’s lots to do, but I’m proud of the foundations the extraordinary team has built and so grateful to them for their work. I know that, under the leadership of our brilliant CEO Kathleen Fisher, ARIA will go from strength to strength. I will be excited to watch ARIA’s next steps and will remain the agency’s biggest fan. The Secretary of State has asked me to stay on for a short transitory period until 6 November to allow BIST to launch a process to select a new Chair. I’ve agreed to do this, with appropriate safeguards against potential conflicts in place. We will kick off the search shortly - it may well be the best non-executive job in the world, so I know we will find someone brilliant...

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A superb appointment! AISI has become a vital institution in AI; I can’t imagine anyone better than Henry to lead it. He combines deep government experience with true founder energy at a critical moment in AI. Bravo!

AI infrastructure build times are one of the biggest bottlenecks on AI progress. Great to see @jamesse_ and Ben announce their round with Index to speed up data centre development (and proud to have been their first backers at @join_ef)

Extremely excited and proud to see @UKSovereignAI launch. Ensuring Britain has important domestic AI firms is going to be critical for navigating the decade ahead. When we first pushed for one of the AI Action Plan’s three chapters to be on AI sovereignty, it seemed like a weird and niche idea… but after nearly two years of work from an amazingly talented array of civil servants, ministers and industry leaders, we have a fantastic foundation for the future. Great work @KanishkaNarayan, @Jameswise and many, many others!