Chris Painter
President of METR, a nonprofit focused on evaluating advanced AI systems and the risks posed by increasingly autonomous models. Works on AI safety, capability measurement, and public understanding of frontier AI progress.
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Apr 25, 2026 • 57min
Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence
Joel Becker, METR researcher on AI evaluation, and Chris Painter, METR president focused on AI risk, unpack the viral chart tracking how long a task would take a human versus an AI. They get into why software work is the key signal, how human baselines and success thresholds are chosen, where autonomous systems still break down, and why fast capability gains are raising pressure on labs and investors.
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Apr 17, 2026 • 44min
Measuring Machine Intelligence with Chris Painter
Chris Painter, president of Model Evaluation and Threat Research, designs ways to measure AI autonomy and catastrophic risk. He discusses using time horizon metrics to gauge sustained autonomy. They cover software-task benchmarks, observed rapid progress in capabilities, barriers to fully automated AI research, and how compute and allocation shape future risks.
