[METR President Responds to Public Concerns: Independent Assessment of AI Out-of-Control Risks, No Funding Accepted from Frontier AI Companies] Chris Painter, President of the research-focused nonprofit organization METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), stated in a post that since 2022, his institution has collaborated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Amazon, and others to conduct third-party evaluations and investigations. The goal is to disclose evidence to the public and government if AI approaches 'out-of-control' or becomes difficult to manage. METR emphasized that it does not accept funding from frontier AI companies or their employees, relying solely on diverse donors and utilizing free model access provided by companies for evaluations.