person

Michael Chen

METR evaluations researcher

Researcher at METR focused on autonomous-task evaluations for frontier models. Contributor to the 'task length doubling' frontier-capability tracking.

current Researcher, METR

Strategy positions

Evals-drivenendorses

Capability/risk evals gate deployment; evals are the load-bearing artefact

Measures empirical trends in autonomous-task capability as the quantitative backbone of deployment-risk reasoning.

The length of autonomous tasks frontier models can complete has been roughly doubling every 4 to 7 months.

¶ articleMETR capability evaluations· METR· 2025· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Michael Chen's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Aleksander Mądry
shared 1 · J=1.00
MIT; ex-OpenAI head of preparedness
Alex Meinke
shared 1 · J=1.00
Apollo Research; deceptive alignment evaluations
Ali Rahimi
shared 1 · J=1.00
Google Brain ML researcher; 'Alchemy' speech
Anna Rogers
shared 1 · J=1.00
IT University of Copenhagen; LLM benchmarking critique
Arati Prabhakar
shared 1 · J=1.00
White House OSTP director (2022–2025)
Beth Barnes
shared 1 · J=1.00
Founder of METR; dangerous capability evaluations

Record last updated 2026-04-25.