@METR_Evals: Could an AI company lose control of its own agents? To find out, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI let us (1) test th…
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METR published its first Frontier Risk Report, assessing the risk of AI companies losing control of their own agents. The report involved testing the best internal models from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI with chain-of-thought access and reviewing non-public information about capabilities and alignment.
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Could an AI company lose control of its own agents? To find out, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI let us (1) test their best internal models with CoT access, (2) review non-public info about capabilities, alignment, and control.
The result: our first Frontier Risk Report. https://t.co/sUpiHgCrTM
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