METR Says Anthropic's Case Against Covert AI Rests on Priors, as Monitors Get Beaten From Both Sides — October 21, 2026
METR's review of Anthropic's August Risk Report agrees misalignment risk was low but says the evidence leans on priors and misses reasoning that talks monitors down, while Redwood Research and Columbia papers expose monitor blind spots from the action side and the reward side. Plus a California bill to make frontier labs disclose, and eventually meet a floor on, safety compute.
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Review of the "Misalignment in high-stakes settings" section in Anthropic's Risk Report (August 2026) — METR
“We mostly agree with Claim 1, but our agreement rests substantially on priors from previous…
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