AI task length is doubling every seven months, METR's chart says. A new preprint finds the same tenfold jump is much easier from 3 to 30 minutes than from 30 minutes to 5 hours, and a METR author warns the error bars run about a factor of two.
METR, time-horizon paper and blog post (19 Mar 2025); re-analysed in an arXiv preprint (8 Oct 2026). Recorded 12 October 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
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