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Stanford Prof. Christopher Manning says METR’s dependence on frontier labs creates a client-capture problem that Stanford structurally doesn’t have: "METR has many extremely dedicated people who really believe that AI safety is important, and they do maintain financial independence from the major labs." "There's a very strong web of... show more
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@chrmanning stanford the most represented school in all labs and the alma mater of like 10-20% of all openai and anthropic employees not having a conflict of interest is definitely one of the opinions ever

@chrmanning Chris misunderstands the relationship between METR and the labs—METR refuses payment for their services with the labs and their funding comes from elsewhere.

@chrmanning stanford has no financial dependence on frontier labs is really something to say with a straight face

@stanfordnlp @chrmanning This seems true when considering Stanford as an organisation but the reports etc will be made by individuals within that organisation. These individuals are rarely independent from influence from the top labs (huge amount of Stanford PhDs end up in frontier labs)

@chrmanning They are intentionally repeating history
