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Google DeepMind researcher Josh Engels resigns over growing risks of artificial general intelligence
The Indian Express1h
THE BRIEF
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Josh Engels resigned from Google's AGI safety team to join METR, warning that advanced AI systems could cause severe harm if development outpaces safety alignment.
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Engels expressed concern over recursive self-improvement, where AI systems build increasingly capable successor systems without verified safety guarantees.
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At METR, Engels will study alignment failures during training and evaluate whether current mitigations are sufficient for managing autonomous capabilities.