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Beth Barnes

1 entry · 20 October 2026

Beth Barnes is the founder and chief executive of METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), an independent non-profit that evaluates whether frontier AI systems can autonomously carry out substantial or dangerous tasks. She previously worked on safety and scalable oversight at OpenAI and on forecasting deep-learning progress at DeepMind, and was named to TIME's 2024 list of the 100 most influential people in AI.

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  • Safety & alignment 1

  1. METR publishes an external review of Anthropic's August risk report

    METR agreed misalignment risk is low but credited limited capabilities, not safeguards, and recommended unredacting four items; Claude judged the report more favourably when told its authors were asking.

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