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Beth Barnes	Notable For	Founded METR (formerly ARC Evals), pioneering dangerous capability evaluations for frontier AI models; led pre-deployment evaluations of GPT-4 and Claude	Mar 2026

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 Beth Barnes is the Founder and CEO of METR, where she oversees a growing technical team that designs and carries out evaluations of generative AI models. Beth previously worked with DeepMind’s Chief Scientist on scaling laws for forecasting deep learning progress and at OpenAI where she helped OpenAI develop safety targets and evaluated scalable oversight techniques for alignment and code models for misalignment before release. She has written and presented on a range of technical and theoretical issues related to aligning machine learning systems with human values.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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 Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)
 
 

 
 May 19, 2026
 

 
 
 A pilot assessment of rogue deployment risk at frontier AI companies. Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with participation from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

 
 
 
 
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 Review of the "Risks from automated R&D" section in the Anthropic Risk Report (February 2026)
 
 

 
 May 8, 2026
 

 
 
 External review from METR of the "Risks from automated R&D" section in Anthropic's February 2026 Risk Report

 
 
 
 
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 Review of the Anthropic Sabotage Risk Report: Claude Opus 4.6
 
 

 
 March 12, 2026
 

 
 
 External review from METR of Anthropic's Sabotage Risk Report for Claude Opus 4.6

 
 
 
 
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 Review of the Anthropic Summer 2025 Pilot Sabotage Risk Report
 
 

 
 October 28, 2025
 

 
 
 External review from METR of Anthropic's Summer 2025 Sabotage Risk Report

 
 
 
 
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 Notes on Scientific Communication at METR
 
 

 
 August 12, 2025
 

 
 
 How we think about tradeoffs when communicating surprising or nuanced findings.

 
 
 
 
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