Our approach to working with AI companies

This blog post explains how we approach working with AI companies on projects that the public might rely on to understand risks. It was published on Oct 14, 2026, and we expect to update it over time. At METR, we gather and publish evidence about whether humans could lose control of AI agents on a large scale. We work with AI companies to conduct evaluations, assessments, and investigations, 1 and to share this evidence publicly. As we have seen increasing expectations for these kinds of voluntary engagements to provide external ‘safety assurance’, we want to explain our perspective. In this p