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A LessWrong post expresses skepticism about whether METR is a meaningful check on Anthropic and argues for an independent, government-funded agency with thousands of independent auditors to pace and supervise frontier AI labs.
Why it matters: It raises the question of whether current third-party evaluators are adequate to oversee frontier AI labs.
Written by AI from LessWrong's published text.
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“I share the skepticism re: "Is METR a Meaningful Check on Anthropic?" Let's take it as a given that we need an independent, government-funded agency involving thousands of independent auditors to pace and supervise the frontier AI labs.”
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