Beth Barnes (METR) - Talk and Q&A

​Summary:

​Beth Barnes, METR founder - Ex-DeepMind/OpenAI. Learn about AI safety evaluations systems, and about METR's latest work.

​About METR:
METR is a research nonprofit that works on assessing whether cutting-edge AI systems could pose catastrophic risks to society.

​We build the science of accurately assessing risks, so that humanity is informed before developing transformative AI systems.

About Beth:

​Beth designs METR’s evaluations of generative AI models and oversees a growing technical team carrying them out. 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.