METR, 2026-08-28; retrieved 2026-09-15 tier 3 self (metr)confirmed

Conflict of interest policy (version 1.0)

PDF (172 KB, about 17k characters via pdftotext) linked from metr.org/about as "Our current conflict of interest policy". Staff disclosure form, three conflict tiers with external-disclosure requirements, provisional recusal, ban on direct equity or debt in frontier AI companies, board ineligibility for frontier-company employees, declining donations made by or at the direction of frontier AI companies or their employees, free compute credits acceptable, and "To date, we have not received payment for work on company-identifying risk assessments". No cooling-off period. fetch_text cannot extract PDF text; spans verified against pdftotext output on 2026-09-15.

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METR, G (for): Nonprofit with a written independence policy and a no-lab-money rule.
METR, X (for): FY2024 Form 990 (filed 16 November 2025) reports $0 program service revenue against $13.6M of contributions, and the August 2026 conflict-of-interest policy states METR has to date received no payment for work on company-identifying risk assessments; the only earned income named is a technical-assistance contract with the European AI Office.
METR, P (for): Published conflict-of-interest policy (version 1.0, 28 August 2026): staff under consideration for a company-identifying risk assessment must disclose conflicts, tiered conflicts require external disclosure in the report, provisional recusal applies during review, staff may not hold direct equity or debt in frontier AI companies, and frontier-company employees are ineligible for the board. No post-employment cooling-off period.“Do not invest in direct equity or debt of frontier AI companies or reasonable economic proxies for specific companies”

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