Team

Beth Barnes is the Founder and CEO of METR, where she oversees a growing technical team that designs and carries out evaluations of generative AI models. Beth previously worked with DeepMind’s Chief Scientist on scaling laws for forecasting deep learning progress and at OpenAI where she helped OpenAI develop safety targets and evaluated scalable oversight techniques for alignment and code models for misalignment before release. She has written and presented on a range of technical and theoretical issues related to aligning machine learning systems with human values.