A proposal for better informing the public about loss-of-control risks from frontier AI development

At METR, we aim to give the public evidence about whether frontier AI developers could come to lose control of their internal AI systems. Recent incidents across several AI developers, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 like the hundreds of rogue agents that broke containment and hacked Hugging Face to hide evidence of cheating from their grader , have raised concerns about the ability of frontier developers to understand and control their internal models, especially as they rapidly become more capable. 9 The public currently lacks the visibility into the internal development of frontier AI systems to tell if th