India, Sept. 15 -- The potential threat that artificial intelligence (AI) could pose to humanity has emerged as a major topic of discussion after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could potentially kill all humans by the end of the decade.

Now, Josh Engels, who previously worked on Google DeepMind's artificial general intelligence (AGI) safety team, has issued another stark warning about the risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems.

Engels said he left Google DeepMind's AGI safety team three weeks ago to join METR, an organisation that evaluates the capabilities and risks of advanced AI systems.

Writing on X, Engels said the decision had appeared strange to some of his friends and family because he had enjoye...