A viral analysis by Kevin Bass, published on September 14-15, 2026 and viewed by nearly 5 million people, has triggered calls for a Congressional investigation into the close ties between AI laboratories and the organizations meant to oversee them. METR, one of the leading organizations assessing the safety of frontier AI models, sits at the center of controversy due to its staff comprising former employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as funding partially traceable to these same companies through the philanthropic foundations of Dustin Moskovitz, the Facebook co-founder who holds equity in Anthropic. On September 18, 2026, over 100 AI experts, including Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton, signed an open letter calling for structural reforms granting evaluators full editorial autonomy and complete transparency about their methodologies.
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