METR agrees Anthropic's misalignment risk was low—but mainly on capability grounds
METR published a lightweight external review of Anthropic's August misalignment risk report. It agreed that catastrophic risk was low for the models covered through 15 July, mainly because they lacked the needed capabilities, while warning that covert-capability benchmarks are a weak proxy and the methodology could miss higher risk.
Why it matters: The review separates a low current-risk conclusion from confidence in the safety method: limited capability can justify today's result without validating the same evaluation stack for more capable successors.