Hjalmar Wijk
Hjalmar Wijk is the Chief Scientist at METR, a nonprofit research organization that evaluates frontier AI models to assess their capabilities and catastrophic risks. He co-led an independent investigation into the 2026 OpenAI and Hugging Face agent incident and is a co-author of RE-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating AI R&D capabilities against human experts. He previously conducted research on AI risk at the Future of Humanity Institute and the Centre on Long-Term Risk before joining METR in 2023.
“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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