Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says AI Labs 'Gambling With Our Lives'
Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving superintelligence without safeguards, and Anthropic’s Evan Hubinger said the risk could exceed 10%.
- 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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Two AI researchers with clear insight into the inner workings of AI companies warn of a dangerous development. AI poses a real threat to humanity, they believe. “Do not underestimate the power of this technology,” writes AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who himself left the company Anthropic in protest.
Jacob Coxon believes that technology could even lead to the destruction of humanity.
A researcher at AI giant Anthropic has left his job in protest against what he fears is a rapid and uncontrolled development where AI takes control and could wipe out humanity within ten years.
Anthropic researcher quits over fears AI could kill off humanity
A British researcher has resigned from U.S. artificial intelligence developer Anthropic over fears that the race to develop “self-improving superintelligence” could lead to humanity’s extinction. Jacob Coxon, who previously worked on pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, posted on X on Tuesday that “neither company is acting responsibly,” and that the people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decad…
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Warnings against artificial intelligence going rogue and leading to a disastrous outcome for humanity have grown louder throughout 2026. Alarm bells are even being rung by those helming the technology, including OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Anthropic honcho Dario Amodei. This week a researcher who has worked at both those companies, Jacob Coxon, said he quit Anthropic to warn “AI can kill us all by the end of the decade… These will soon be superhu…
"We really sincerely believe that AI could kill all humans," said Evan Hubinger, an Anthropic chief of security.
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