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On policy @METR_Evals 🧪 “excels at reasoning & tool use” 🪄 CoI disclosures on my Substack “About” page.
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A post says METR seeks rapid publication, with transparency about assessment scope, redactions and limitations.
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Apollo Research says frontier AI companies have committed to giving outside evaluators employee-like access to training, evaluation and deployment.
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An essay coauthor argues that latent reasoning would undermine oversight by reducing the need for verbalized reasoning. A reply disputes any further loss of oversight, arguing that reinforcement learning already makes reasoning tokens uninterpretable.
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Speaking personally, not for METR, a commenter says the work they've been involved in has not met their standard for an audit or amounted to regulation.
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An AI researcher introduces a career story with a recurring joke about having tweeted their way into the job.
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A user calls for more attention to the group’s work, highlighting a standard covering embedded audits and members including METR, Transluce, RAND, AVERI, Princeton and SecureBio.
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METR says it does not accept donations made by or at the direction of those firms’ staff and works to maintain its independence as its risk assessments become more consequential.
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Dario Amodei says Anthropic will give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify adherence to safety measures, report incidents and assess model alignment during training.
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Pseudonymous AI commentator @scaling01 shares views on monitoring techniques for advanced models.