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# Joe Benton Joins METR for AI Risk Work After 1\.5 Years at Anthropic

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**Published:** 2026-09-02T23:56:23.000Z
**Topics:** anthropic, safety, metr

## Summary

The evaluation organization METR added Joe Benton to its team last week to work on assessing artificial intelligence risks\. Benton specializes in embedded asse…

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