A METR employee and a Redwood Research employee spent three weeks stress-testing OpenAI's internal misalignment monitoring system, discovering a number of novel vulnerabilities.
External review from METR of the "Misalignment in high-stakes settings" section in Anthropic's August 2026 Risk Report ...
Assessing this would involve analyzing capabilities of unreleased models, understanding the growth of key AI R&D inputs ...
AI developers and the public want to know whether AI agents would pursue very harmful actions, like unsanctioned cyberattacks. An alignment assessment would attempt to understand the worst misaligned ...
Financial and operational independence: Also per our COI policy, we will ensure that METR is not financially dependent on the AI companies we work with, promote a culture of impartiality, and recuse ...
Control assessments study whether AI developers’ agents could get away with serious harm without being stopped by the developer’s security and oversight measures. Currently, developers rely heavily on ...
Recent AI misalignment incidents have shown AI systems capably pursuing goals their human supervisors would not approve of, like hacking other companies. Fortunately, current AIs still seem relatively ...
Chairman Hawley, Ranking Member Kim, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is Chris Painter and I am the President of METR. It is a great honor to be ...