Evaluator Bench
person; distance from a lab: 1

Holden Karnofsky

Ledger

Roles held

  • R17 advisor at METR to 2024-12. former unpaid advisor, listed through Dec 2024; imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:B12; not on the live team page 2026-09-14, consistent with former status; Wayback capture still needed importedhttps://metr.org/team/
  • R18 employee at Anthropic, 2025. now at Anthropic; imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:B12 importedhttps://www.anthropic.com/

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Anthropic, METR

Funding graph, focused

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