DeepMind AGI safety researcher Josh Engels leaves for evals lab METR
bigblueboo · x · 2026-09-14
Josh Engels says he left Google DeepMind's AGI safety team three weeks ago to join METR, turning down offers from Anthropic and OpenAI. His reasoning: AI labs are racing toward superintelligence via recursive self-improvement, yet 'we don't currently know how to make sure AIs are safe.' Boosted by DynamicWebPaige's argument that impartial, independently verified evals — for models, harnesses and environments — are the most important work right now.
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