Hjalmar Wijk
Chief Scientist at METR, working on threat modeling; first author of the RE-Bench AI R&D evaluation
- Chief Scientist, METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research)12
Hjalmar Wijk is Chief Scientist at METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), where Wijk works on threat modeling to determine which AI capabilities may pose catastrophic risk and should be evaluated. Wijk is first author of RE-Bench (2024), which evaluates language model agents' AI research and engineering capabilities against human experts.123
Career
Before METR, Wijk worked on understanding AI risks and strategy at the Future of Humanity Institute and the Centre on Long-Term Risk.1
At METR, Wijk is Chief Scientist and works on threat modeling, aiming to identify which AI capabilities may pose catastrophic risk and therefore should be evaluated.12
Research
Wijk is first author of RE-Bench (2024), which measures frontier language model agents' AI R&D capabilities against human experts, and a co-author of METR's 2025 study of AI ability to complete long software tasks. Recent METR publications with Wijk include MALT (2025), a dataset of behaviors that threaten evaluation integrity, early work on monitorability evaluations (2026), and a 2026 independent investigation of AI agents' behavior in a hacking incident.341
Work
RE-Bench (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of RE-Bench (2024), a benchmark comparing language model agents with human experts on AI research and engineering tasks.3
Career timeline
Nov 2024
Posted RE-Bench as first author.3
Mar 2025
Co-authored METR's study measuring AI ability to complete long software tasks.4
Oct 14, 2025
Co-authored MALT, a dataset of behaviors that threaten evaluation integrity.1
Jan 22, 2026
Co-authored METR's early work on monitorability evaluations.1
May 19, 2026
Co-authored METR's Frontier Risk Report covering February to March 2026.1
Other documented roles
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- Worked on understanding AI risks and strategy, Future of Humanity Institute and Centre on Long-Term Risk1
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