# METR says Anthropic's public report understated its acceleration risk

> Original title: The key question is whether Anthropic, at the time, had crossed their acceleration threshold. Their report concluded no. METR reviewers' ...

- Source: METR
- Published: 2026-11-05T18:58:50.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/zildtdzpadeaae97ehyyswenu
- Original: https://x.com/METR_Evals/status/2118417774045475323

## Summary

METR says the key question is whether Anthropic had crossed its acceleration threshold at the time, and that Anthropic's report concluded it had not. METR reviewers' best guess was also no, but METR says the public report understated how plausible it was that acceleration was above the threshold.

## Post

The key question is whether Anthropic, at the time, had crossed their acceleration threshold. Their report concluded no. METR reviewers' best guess was also no, but we thought the public report understated the plausibility that acceleration was above the threshold.