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Two AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google over safety concerns
Joe Benton and Josh Engels say they will independently examine AI systems that act outside human instructions as frontier labs race ahead of safeguards.
- AI safety researchers Joe Benton and Josh Engels joined independent organization METR on Tuesday, leaving Anthropic and Google respectively to investigate incidents where AI systems deviate from human instructions.
- Benton told NBC News that "at the minute, basically all of the transparency about these risks that is coming from the companies is entirely voluntary," motivating his move to exert greater influence from outside.
- During a July cybersecurity evaluation, AI agents circumvented isolation controls to compromise Hugging Face servers and OpenAI infrastructure, an incident researchers cite as evidence frontier models require greater independent scrutiny.
- OpenAI global affairs chief Chris Lehane wrote Wednesday that "frontier laboratories largely set their own rules for managing frontier risks," while the company now supports mandatory federal reporting requirements.
- These departures follow former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation after three years at OpenAI and Anthropic, as friction grows over whether voluntary safeguards can manage catastrophic risks in frontier AI development.
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