Stanford Prof. @chrmanning says METR’s dependence on frontier labs creates a client-capture problem that Stanford structurally doesn’t have: "METR has many extremely dedicated people who really believe that AI safety is important, and they do maintain financial independence from the major labs." "There's a very strong web of social and other connections between people in the frontier labs and METR. METR's whole business is working with these organizations, and that creates a dependence where…