Joe Weisenthal

I'm very excited to say we have the two perfect guests to talk about the most viral and maybe important chart in AI right now.

We're going to be speaking with Joel Becker.

He is a member of the technical staff at Meter.

And we're also going to be speaking with Chris Painter, the president of Meter.

So, Joel and Chris, thank you so much for coming on OddLots.

Thank you so much for having us, guys.

Thank you for having us.

Yeah, really excited to chat with both of you.

Chris, since you're the president, I'll start with you.

Like, what is METER?

How long has it been around?

What is this organization?

What's its goal?

Just give us the sort of 60-second synopsis of METER.

Yeah, totally.

I can try and, you know, sometimes I give a long version.

I can try and do a short version here.

So...

METER is a research nonprofit based in the Bay Area, like you said, dedicated to advancing the science of measuring whether and when AI systems might pose catastrophic risks to humanity as a whole, focused specifically on threats that come from AI autonomy or AI systems themselves.

So when you talk about this whole field in AI,