person
Chris Painter
METR head of policy; ex-OpenAI
Head of policy at METR (formerly ARC Evals), the nonprofit evaluation organization whose third-party assessments became part of major frontier-lab safety frameworks.
current Head of Policy, METR
past Policy Researcher, OpenAI
Strategy positions
Evals-drivenendorses
Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefactArgues third-party evaluation organizations need standing to test frontier models pre-deployment; voluntary access from labs is fragile and should be backed by regulation.
Voluntary third-party access agreements are useful but fragile. The natural next step is to give evaluators the legal standing to require access for systems above defined capability thresholds.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.