RAND Corp, Backed by $330M in Federal Funds, Teams up with METR on AI Safety

SUMMARY The RAND corporation receives hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding anually via the federal government. RAND has partnered with METR, the well-funded AI safety org that Anthropic wants to embed as government-mandated AI safety evaluators in every company, despite concerns over the organization’s ideological biases. The joint RAND-METR initiative is backed…