person
Jacob Steinhardt
UC Berkeley professor; METR board
UC Berkeley statistician whose forecasting work has informed mainstream AI capability predictions. Board member at METR and co-author of several influential AI safety papers.
current Assistant Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley; Board member, METR
Strategy positions
Evals-drivenendorses
Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefactPublishes forecasting benchmarks and argues capability measurement is the grounded foundation of safety work.
Reliable capability forecasts, rather than vibes, should drive policy. Where we have data, we should use it.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.