Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says AI Labs 'Gambling With Our Lives'
Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to build self-improving systems, while Anthropic’s Evan Hubinger said he sees a more than 10% extinction risk.
- 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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Silicon Valley's latest doomsday talk isn't coming from outsiders—it's coming from the people building the machines. Three Anthropic staffers have gone public with warnings that advanced AI systems could wipe out humanity within years, not centuries, reports Axios. Researcher Jacob Coxon, who signed from Anthropic this week, wrote that...
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