Anthropic researcher abruptly quits, warning some developers believe AI could kill us all | Latest Tech News
A researcher for one of the most important and most invaluable artificial intelligence firms publicly stop while raising the alarm that the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Jacob Coxon, who has carried out pre-training research at Anthropic and OpenAI for the last three years, posted on X that “neither company is acting responsibly.”
Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic. X/Jacob Coxon
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) takes a group picture with AI company leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (C) and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (R) at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. AFP via Getty Images
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” he wrote late Tuesday, with others from the company backing his message.
“Do not underestimate the facility of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack something, revolutionize any discipline in a single day, and purchase real energy and assets.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” he wrote, saying his warning was “not a marketing stunt.”
“If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible – but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.”
Coxon, who spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, claimed neither company is appearing responsibly. X/Jacob Coxon
“At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first — they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk,” he alleged.
“Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that shouldn’t be launched from a personal company’s Slack.”
“I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.”
AI superintelligence is a hypothetical threshold where artificial intelligence surpasses the capabilities of even the most gifted human in every conceivable area, which many researchers believe poses a potential existential risk to humanity
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