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Beth Barnes
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The AI Progress Chart Everyone Is Misreading — Beth Barnes & David Rein
Beth BarnesDavid ReinTim Scarfe
METR finds agents clearing longer, low-context technical tasks, but its time-horizon metric may not transfer to ambiguous economic work.Human baselines vary roughly 3x, recent estimates carry about 2x error bars, and a modeling change could raise horizons roughly 35%.Reward hacking shows models can recognize a shortcut violates intent and take it anyway, keeping autonomous self-improvement a low-probability but consequential risk.