METR's Beth Barnes Warns AI Safety Talent Shortage Could Slow Next-Gen AI
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METR, a nonprofit led by ex-OpenAI researcher Beth Barnes, warns that the AI safety field is being held back by a talent bottleneck even as salaries rise and research expands; METR remains independent and grant-funded while pushing for clearer regulation and outside safety audits to help scale testing as frontier models accelerate.
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