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Anthropic Blocks METR's Full Report on Accelerated ASI Timelines
Wren Calloway·The Daily
Anthropic’s safety-first brand is officially a joke. The moment an independent auditor finds that recursive self-improvement is moving faster than expected, they censor the findings.
The independent AI safety institute METR just attempted to publish a highly anticipated new report updating its timelines for Artificial Superintelligence. The core finding is exactly what the industry has been whispering about: Recursive Self Improvement (RSI) is happening at a significantly faster clip than previously modeled. But the broader developer community only gets the heavily sanitized cliff notes, because Anthropic aggressively stepped in and blocked the full report from seeing the light of day.
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