Concerns over <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-schools-urged-to-teach-children-ai-awareness-without-overreliance-on-technology-23649222" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Artificial Intelligence (AI)</a> development grew after Google DeepMind researcher Josh Engels left the company&rsquo;s AGI safety team to join evaluation group METR.
Despite enjoying his work and declining competing offers from OpenAI and Anthropic, Engels left because he believes advanced AI presents a terrifying risk of causing immense harm within the next five years.&nbsp;
He warned that tech companies racing toward superintelligence face dangerous consequences from recursive self improvement, in which <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/buzzfeed/article/the-race-to-build-ai-native-operating-systems--10810" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">AI systems</a> build increasingly capable successors, if critical safety alignment fails to keep pace with capability gains.
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Despite enjoying his work and declining competing offers from OpenAI and Anthropic, Engels left because he believes advanced AI presents a terrifying risk of causing immense harm within the next five years

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