Beth Barnes on AI
2 quotes from Beth Barnes on the wall, 2025 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include transformernews.ai, Transformer.
- 2026
Beth Barnes of METR, quoted in the Transformer Weekly newsletter's discourse roundup, May 2026, responding to claims that experts have AI risk under control and speaking as "an expert" herself.
transformernews.aiThe campaign to stop federal AI laws is backfiring
- 2025
Capability improvement trends are rapid, and GPT-5 is somewhat above-trend
METR CEO Beth Barnes assessing GPT-5's capability gains relative to historical trend lines, quoted in Transformer's weekly briefing after OpenAI released GPT-5, August 2025.