
Elizabeth BarnesResearcher
METR
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Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at METR
Engels studies whether advanced AI systems can be understood and kept under control. He co-authored influential tests of sparse autoencoders—tools for identifying internal model features—and scaling laws for supervising systems that may outperform their overseers.
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Last editorial review: September 14, 2026