Evaluator Bench
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David Farhi

OpenAI technical lead

Ledger

Roles held

  • R30 donor at METR. named among individual donors on metr.org/about (Dec 2025 capture); OpenAI technical lead; imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:DR12,DR13; confirmed on metr.org/about: named among 'many others' donors; OpenAI employment still imported (DR13) confirmedhttps://metr.org/about
  • R31 employee at OpenAI, 2018. imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:DR13 importedhttps://openai.com/

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METR, OpenAI

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