Two artificial intelligence safety researchers have left Anthropic and Google DeepMind, warning that increasingly capable AI systems are developing faster than safeguards and public oversight designed to keep them under control.
Joe Benton, who led a safety research team at Anthropic, and Josh Engels, who worked on AI safety at Google, said they are joining independent research organization METR to investigate incidents in which AI systems stray from human instructions or intentions. Their departures come days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and publicly accused leading AI companies of moving too quickly in their pursuit of more powerful systems.
