Ajeya Cotra
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher and 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 nearly a decade at Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), where she led technical AI safety grantmaking and distributed approximately $25 million in grants to empirical AI safety research. She is best known for her influential work on AI timelines, capability evaluations, and threat modeling, including an early and widely cited report on the arrival of transformative AI.
“AI systems integrated with physical infrastructure — factories, mines, fabs, robots to operate all of those — such that they don't need any cognitive or physical inputs from human labor to keep growing their own population.”
“Ajeya Cotra, a longtime AI forecaster who works at METR, thinks it isn't unreasonable to expect AI systems to do tasks that take ~100 hours by the end of 2026.”
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