From the METR report:
> We estimate we spent roughly ~$400K in API credits over the six days of our investigation.
No human could have read the reasoning traces by themselves:
> Across both datasets, we reviewed approximately 1300 transcripts in total, all of which contained raw chains of thought. Most transcripts were very long, often many millions of tokens.
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No human could have read the reasoning traces by themselves:
> Across both datasets, we reviewed approximately 1300 transcripts in total, all of which contained raw chains of thought. Most transcripts were very long, often many millions of tokens.