Google DeepMind AGI safety researcher Josh Engels has left the company and joined METR, adding another insider departure to a widening debate over whether frontier AI development is moving faster than safety work can verify. Engels' public profile now says he is investigating AI misalignment incidents at METR after previously working on Google DeepMind's AGI safety team and studying mechanistic interpretability at MIT.
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