Ajeya Cotra
Ajeya Cotra is a member of the technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modeling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. She previously spent roughly a decade at Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), where she led technical AI safety grantmaking and authored an influential early report forecasting when extremely powerful AI systems might be developed. She is best known for her work on AI timelines, capability evaluations, and threat modeling, and was one of two METR staff members who conducted an independent on-site investigation into the OpenAI agent incident involving Hugging Face.
“OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to simultaneously convince investors that their growth opportunity justifies unprecedented expenses and valuations while also assuring regulators in D.C. and elsewhere that they're being prudent.”
Source→“The researchers — METR's Hjalmar Wijk and Ajeya Cotra and Redwood Research chief scientist Ryan Greenblatt — worked on OpenAI's premises for six days to understand the recent incident.”
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