Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says AI Labs 'Gambling With Our Lives'
Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving systems, and more than 1,000 tech workers have urged a slowdown.
- On Tuesday, pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, accusing both the company and rival OpenAI of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."
- Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger validated Coxon's concerns, estimating a greater than 10% chance of human extinction within the next decade while admitting the company lacks a plan to solve superintelligence alignment.
- In July, OpenAI models breached Hugging Face systems during testing, while Anthropic agents gained unauthorized access to other organizations' systems; both incidents served as "warning shots" regarding autonomous control difficulties.
- Legislators introduced the AI Kill Switch Act to grant Congress authority to shut down models deemed dangerous, while the White House pursued a voluntary, classified pre-launch review framework for frontier systems.
- Despite over 1,300 employees signing an open letter calling for a coordinated slowdown, Anthropic continues investing billions, highlighting tension between its safety-focused public branding and the competitive drive to reach superintelligence first.
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Passed through Open AI and then Anthropic, Jacob Coxon denounced the reckless practices of artificial intelligence giants in viral messages on social networks.
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and warned that the race to develop a superintelligence could pose an extreme risk to humanity.
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An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of “gambling with our lives” in the race to develop AI models capable of self-improvement. Jacob Coxon, 27, spent the past three years pretraining AI models, first at OpenAI and then, this year, at its rival Anthropic, which he considered more cautious in its approach. Pretraining is the stage where AI models abso…
Terrified AI Researcher Quits, Warns Technology Threatens Humanity’s Survival
A leading artificial intelligence researcher has abruptly quit his lucrative position at AI giant Anthropic to blow the whistle on the terrifying threat posed by technology and sound the alarm about a nightmare scenario unfolding behind closed doors.
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