Information for Model Evaluation and Threat Research

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Basic information

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Other names METR
Country United States
Website https://metr.org/
Team page https://metr.org/team/
Launch date 2023-01-01
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2024-09-30
Notes METR was incubated at the Alignment Research Center and is now a standalone non-profit.

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2022 2 Elizabeth Barnes Max Hasin
2023 18 Elizabeth Barnes, Max Hasin, Sudarsh K Amanda (Rae) She, Amritanshu Prasad, Amy Ngo, Aric Floyd, Brian Goodrich, Chris Painter, Chris Painter, Emma Abele, Emma Abele, Hjalmar Wijk, Kyle Scott, Lucas Sato, Martin Milbradt, Max Hasin, Thomas Broadley
2024 29 Elizabeth Barnes, Francisco Carvalho, Max Hasin, Michael Chen, Sudarsh K Amanda (Rae) She, Amritanshu Prasad, Amritanshu Prasad, Amy Ngo, Aric Floyd, Arjun Khandelwal, Ben West, Brian Goodrich, Chris Painter, David Rein, Emma Abele, Emma Abele, Hjalmar Wijk, Joshua Clymer, Kit Harris, Kyle Scott, Lucas Sato, Maksym Taran, Martin Milbradt, Michael Chen, Neev Parikh, Nikola Jurkovic, Ryan Bloom, Thomas Broadley

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2023-01-01 3 Elizabeth Barnes, Hjalmar Wijk, Max Hasin
2024-01-01 17 Amanda (Rae) She, Amritanshu Prasad, Amy Ngo, Aric Floyd, Arjun Khandelwal, Brian Goodrich, Chris Painter, Elizabeth Barnes, Emma Abele, Francisco Carvalho, Hjalmar Wijk, Kyle Scott, Lucas Sato, Martin Milbradt, Max Hasin, Sudarsh K, Thomas Broadley

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
10 10 0 Adam Gleave, Holden Karnofsky, Kathy Garcia, Kris Chari, Megan Kinniment, Rae She, Rebecca Baron, Sami Jawhar, Tao Lin, Yoshua Bengio
2022-07-01 11 1 0 Max Hasin
2022-08-01 12 1 0 Elizabeth Barnes
2023-01-01 13 1 0 Hjalmar Wijk
2023-03-01 16 3 0 Brian Goodrich, Emma Abele, Lucas Sato
2023-05-01 18 2 0 Chris Painter, Kyle Scott
2023-07-01 17 0 -1 Max Hasin
2023-08-01 18 1 0 Amanda (Rae) She
2023-09-01 20 2 0 Amy Ngo, Max Hasin
2023-10-01 21 1 0 Aric Floyd
2023-11-01 23 3 -1 Chris Painter, Sudarsh K, Thomas Broadley Chris Painter
2023-12-01 25 3 -1 Amritanshu Prasad, Emma Abele, Martin Milbradt Emma Abele
2024-01-01 27 2 0 Arjun Khandelwal, Francisco Carvalho
2024-02-01 28 1 0 Ryan Bloom
2024-03-01 30 2 0 Kit Harris, Maksym Taran
2024-04-01 33 4 -1 Ben West, Emma Abele, Joshua Clymer, Michael Chen Emma Abele
2024-05-01 34 1 0 Nikola Jurkovic
2024-07-01 34 2 -2 Amritanshu Prasad, Michael Chen Amritanshu Prasad, Michael Chen
2024-08-01 35 1 0 David Rein
2024-09-01 36 1 0 Neev Parikh

List of people (42 positions)

Person Title Start date End date AI safety relation Subject Employment type Source Notes
Elizabeth Barnes Founder, Head of Research 2022-08-01 full-time [1], [2]
Emma Abele Executive Director 2024-04-01 full-time [3], [2]
Emma Abele President 2023-12-01 2024-04-01 full-time [3]
Emma Abele Chief of Staff 2023-03-01 2023-12-01 full-time [3]
Chris Painter Head of Policy 2023-11-01 full-time [4], [2]
Chris Painter Member of Technical Staff 2023-05-01 2023-11-01 full-time [4]
Kit Harris Chief of Staff 2024-03-01 [5], [2]
Ben West Member of Technical Staff 2024-04-01 [6], [2]
Brian Goodrich Member of Technical Staff 2023-03-01 [7], [2]
David Rein Member of Technical Staff 2024-08-01 full-time [8], [2]
Hjalmar Wijk Member of Technical Staff 2023-01-01 full-time [9], [2]
Joshua Clymer Member of Technical Staff 2024-04-01 full-time [10], [2]
Kathy Garcia Member of Technical Staff [2]
Lucas Sato Member of Technical Staff 2023-03-01 full-time [11], [2]
Maksym Taran Member of Technical Staff 2024-03-01 full-time [12], [2]
Max Hasin Model Evaluations Researcher 2023-09-01 full-time [13], [2]
Max Hasin Model Evaluator 2022-07-01 2023-07-01 contractor [13]
Megan Kinniment Member of Technical Staff [2]
Neev Parikh Member of Technical Staff 2024-09-01 full-time [14], [2]
Ryan Bloom Member of Technical Staff 2024-02-01 full-time [15], [2]
Sami Jawhar Member of Technical Staff [2]
Tao Lin Member of Technical Staff [2]
Thomas Broadley Member of Technical Staff 2023-11-01 full-time [16], [2]
Kris Chari Member of Operations Staff [2]
Kyle Scott Member of Operations Staff 2023-05-01 full-time [17], [2]
Rae She Member of Operations Staff [2]
Rebecca Baron Member of Operations Staff [2]
Michael Chen Member of Policy Staff 2024-07-01 full-time [18], [2]
Michael Chen Research Fellow 2024-04-01 2024-07-01 [18]
Adam Gleave Advisor and Board Member board member [2]
Holden Karnofsky Advisor advisor [2]
Yoshua Bengio Advisor advisor [2]
Arjun Khandelwal Software Engineering Contractor 2024-01-01 contractor [19]
Amritanshu Prasad Model Interaction 2024-07-01 full-time [20]
Amritanshu Prasad Data Annotator 2023-12-01 2024-07-01 full-time [20]
Sudarsh K Research Assistant 2023-11-01 contractor [21]
Amanda (Rae) She Executive Assistant to Beth Barnes, Special Projects Lead 2023-08-01 full-time [22]
Amy Ngo Model Interaction Contractor 2023-09-01 contractor [23]
Francisco Carvalho Technical Research Fellow 2024-01-01 contractor [24]
Martin Milbradt Model Interaction 2023-12-01 contractor [25]
Aric Floyd External Relations Coordinator 2023-10-01 part-time [26]
Nikola Jurkovic Technical Intern 2024-05-01 full-time [27]

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