The key questions about internal AI development the public needs more evidence about, and a concrete proposal for how ...

Our proposal is to analyze a developer’s internal incidents and whether training may suppress evidence of worse misalignment.

Our proposal is to analyze whether a developer’s internal agents could get away with serious harm without being caught.

Assessing this would involve analyzing capabilities of unreleased models, understanding the growth of key AI R&D inputs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Note on independence: This evaluation was conducted under an unpaid agreement for AI R&D assessment. 1 We drafted the initial summary, and then Anthropic had the opportunity to review and edit the ...

Please note that this post focuses on incidents where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to METR’s systems, not AI agents hacking in our evaluations. We have conducted an initial ...

Note Notes are unpolished research updates directly from METR researchers, and have gone through less review than our research posts. They do not necessarily reflect the views of METR as a whole. Q: ...

Update (September 5, 2026): We’ve updated our suggested questions for investigators to make them more precise and cover limitations. See the update log for the original questions. In this post, we’ll ...

Note Notes are unpolished research updates directly from METR researchers, and have gone through less review than our research posts. They do not necessarily reflect the views of METR as a whole. We ...