AI agents sometimes autonomously take sophisticated, sustained actions in clear violation of user and developer intent. As an example, last week OpenAI reported that some of…
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We (Parker and Tom) recently coauthored a paper, “The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement”, with 7 other economists. The paper walks through a series of simple models…
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Note: the modeling assumptions and conclusion are Thomas Kwa’s opinion, and others at METR disagree.1 Also, the math was checked by Claude but not a second…
Note on independence: This evaluation was conducted under a standard NDA. Due to the sensitive information shared with METR as part of this evaluation, OpenAI’s comms…
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Summary In February–April 2026, we ran a survey of 349 technical workers (including 87 software engineers, 71 researchers, 129 academics and PhD students, and 48 founders…
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