The speaker says METR's work is an initial step toward maintaining oversight of AI systems in the current regime, where careful effort can make their behavior understandable.

“overstate how much these like solutions solve everything like I really do think of this as the first step like I think of everything meter is doing as something that can help us maintain a handle on”

“AI systems in this current regime where at least if we like try very hard,”

“we can kind of understand what's going on.”