AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios.

Axios 2026-09-11 Madison Mills

Context & Ripple Effects

Coxon’s departure follows his public argument that AI companies are racing toward systems they may not control, and his call for industry-wide international coordination on recursive self-improvement. His decision to leave before Anthropic equity vested makes the stated safety objection a concrete employment trade-off rather than only a public critique.

The episode also lands after 2024 reporting on OpenAI’s restrictive employee off-boarding terms, which put equity and workers’ ability to speak publicly into the governance debate. Coxon’s continued OpenAI equity separates his Anthropic exit from a complete financial break with frontier-AI employers.

First-order effects

Anthropic loses a researcher who has publicly tied his exit to AI-safety concerns, while Coxon forfeits the pending Anthropic equity he says would have vested two months later.
Coxon retains equity from OpenAI, leaving him financially connected to a prior frontier-AI employer despite leaving Anthropic and the industry.

Second-order effects

For Anthropic, the forfeited award makes equity vesting a visible part of the retention calculus for safety researchers whose concerns conflict with an employer’s development pace.
OpenAI’s earlier off-boarding controversy and Coxon’s departure give prospective frontier-lab employees a sharper comparison point between compensation incentives and their ability to exit or criticize company practice.

Third-order effects

If prominent safety staff keep treating departure as the credible response to unresolved risk concerns, frontier labs’ safety claims will be judged increasingly through retention and employee-governance practices, not only published commitments.
The recurring link between equity, exit terms, and public dissent points toward AI governance becoming an employment-structure issue as well as a technical and policy issue.

The trend: Frontier-AI governance is expanding from model-safety research into the incentives and exit conditions governing the people asked to conduct it.

Discussion

@hilbertspaess Jacob Coxon on x
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
@saprmarks Samuel Marks on x
[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).] Jacob's thread is very worth reading. Here's my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI: 1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes).…
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@zerohedge Seems like a setup
@a_nnawang Anna Wang on x
I worked at Google DeepMind and now at Anthropic. This is a common sentiment amongst my peers. (I write this in personal capacity.) There is not yet a viable scientific plan to solve risks from recursively self-improving AI. Please look up!
@v_maini Vishal Maini on x
I was on the communications & policy team at Google DeepMind from 2018 - 2022. When I first joined GDM, external communication about the possibility of human extinction was not permitted, by anyone, at any level of the organization. If asked about existential risk, researchers we…
@berniesanders Bernie Sanders on x
Mr. Coxon is right. The very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development.
@ethanjperez Ethan Perez on x
Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we knew he was a strong researcher at OpenAI. Before he left, I pitched him to stay and join my team, and I was sad he decided to leave, …
@bgurley Bill Gurley on x
Sound like many employees at Anthropic share Jacob's POV, as many posted yesterday that (1) they agree, and (2) said that many more inside the company do also. It would be useful to name this “belief system” so that we can talk about it in a reasonable way. I suspect “doomer
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
I think some Safety people perceive Anthropic to be more responsible than OpenAI. And I think a lot of people with the opposing view find Anthropic to be much worse. But just as a total outsider, their rhetoric and style of business seem pretty really similar to me.
@tedcruz Ted Cruz on x
READ this. This is highly revealing. If we allow Dems to strangle American AI—and hand global AI leadership to China—it would be utterly catastrophic.
@billackman Bill Ackman on x
Interesting.
@hilbertspaess Jacob Coxon on x
@elonmusk @zerohedge I'm real and these are my real beliefs. You could ask your xAI researchers about me if you hadn't fired them.
@repluna Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on x
Congress needs to convene a special session on AI and what the future of the U.S. looks like. There are very real impacts to society as we know it. Partisan politics aside, there are massive implications of a race towards super intelligence. This is not a doomer post, as some of …
@typesfast Ryan Petersen on x
I need to buy more stock in this company. I've never seen such a commitment to making money regardless of the consequences.
@davidsacks David Sacks on x
Surely Anthropic's IPO must be paused until the claims of this “whistleblower” can be investigated.
@willdepue Will Depue on x
I've known Jacob Coxon for the last three years, having started at OpenAI at the same time. I consider him a deeply thoughtful and measured individual, and also absolute chiller of a guy. I respect his decision to resign from Anthropic, at great financial cost, for his beliefs.
@buccocapital @buccocapital on x
“Hey Dario, congrats again on the great quarter. Nice to see the Enterprise re-acceleration. Hoping you could provide a little color on that 10% extinction # and some of the puts and takes that might have on further enterprise adoption. And then just a quick follow-up after”
@theo @theo on x
I understand why people are concerned with Jacob's tweets but I cannot fathom how anyone would say that he is faking it or doing it for clout or that it's some type of psyop. It's incredibly clear reading this that Jacob believes the things he is saying. He is very well regarded …
@boazbaraktcs Boaz Barak on x
Whether or not you agree with @hilbertspaess, you have to respect Anthropic employees that are supporting him like this.
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
Incredible how people are making up different numbers of weeks/months for how long Coxon worked at Anthropic to assassinate his character. The only credible source (@MadisonMills22 @axios who spoke with him directly, and fact-checked her work) reports 4 months; multiple people, l…
@vanessaselbst Vanessa Selbst on x
Pretty amazing that Anthropic employees are commending this persons decision to speak out when it obviously hurts their bottom line. I think it really underscores how serious they think these risks are.
@altcap Brad Gerstner on x
Ridiculous hyperbole from an ex junior employee who worked a total of 6 weeks at Anthropic now cause for regulatory intervention? No thx. 😂🧐
@micahcarroll Micah Carroll on x
This is not a setup or some political psyop. I had many lunches and dinners with Jacob at OpenAI in which we talked about AI existential risks in similar terms. It's a cross-partisan position within misalignment teams across all frontier AI companies that business-as-usual AI dev…
@anniejacobsen Annie Jacobsen on x
As the author of BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO, I will say the quiet part of this👇 out loud: If a “superhuman system that can hack anything” hacks a variety of BSL-3 + BSL-4 labs — or all 3,600+ of them— and what's inside gets released, it's goodbye humans.
@darrenpjones Darren Jones MP on x
I've never thought we should ban innovation or scientific endeavour but it's clear we need a new multinational treaty for the safe and regulated development of superintelligence. I've written to @antonioguterres @MathiasCormann and @andyburnham to ask that the UN, OECD and G7/G20…
@willdepue Will Depue on x
@wallstengine He was at OpenAI for the last 3 years before that, in the same role.
@parkerthayer Parker Thayer on x
This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal wh…
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
This guy worked at Anthropic for six weeks! He worked at OpenAI years before that! He won't even explain what it is he's scared of outside of some vague assertion about recursive self improvement, which is still theoretical! This is “something big is happening” all over again
@robertgraham Robert Graham on x
The following tweet is a good “normie” discussion of AI doomerism issues. I am a “techie” and “finance
@madisonmills22 Madison Mills on x
@813Strategies I'm told well into six figures
@eeeeiluj Julie Steele on x
I work at OpenAI. In my personal capacity, I also think we need to slow down.
@wallstengine @wallstengine on x
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon gave up all his equity to quit over AI safety concerns, leaving after 4 months, just 2 months before vesting. “I no longer have anything to gain by juicing up Anthropic's valuation... I left before any of my equity vested,” he told Axios.
@adamamcbride Adam McBride on x
These dudes were smart enough to negotiate a 6-month vesting cliff... ...and stupid enough to not stay.
@sam_badawi Sam Badawi on x
Speaking of OpenAI, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit over AI safety concerns just two months before his equity would have vested. Coxon says frontier AI is becoming harder to monitor and warned competitive pressure could eventually force labs to cut corners on safety.
@peterjhasson Peter J. Hasson on x
This was such a smart question from @BretBaier tonight: “Did you work with any third parties as far as this whistleblowing and coming out?” Jacob Coxon: “Not at all.
@alltheyud Eliezer Yudkowsky on x
I think this is one of the best possible times for another Anthropic capabilities researcher to quit, very loudly and publicly. Remember, whatever leverage you think you're saving your powder about, it evaporates once Mythos 6 replaces you.
@toly @toly on x
Dude was there for 4 months?
@geiger_capital @geiger_capital on x
*ANTHROPIC RESEARCHER JACOB COXON RESIGNED OVER AI SAFETY CONCERNS 2 MONTHS BEFORE HIS EQUITY VESTED Uhhh... we might actually be fucked.
@madisonmills22 Madison Mills on x
Scoop: Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon tells me he gave up his equity when he resigned due to concerns about AI safety. More from our conversation, including his perception of Anthropic's “paranoia” here: https://www.axios.com/...
@m_adams Michael Adams on x
So far, at least 22 politicians responded directly to this tweet with calls for legislation to regulate AI: 2 governors, 7 senators, and 13 representatives. Highly partisan - all democrats except for three. Here's the full list: - Governor, IL (JB Pritzker - D) https://x.com/... …
@beffjezos @beffjezos on x
It's a Psyop. Dems and EAs teaming up to convince you they should be the only ones to control AI, in a messed up merge of govt and private lab. This is an attempt at forming an overcentralized singleton ASI trying to convince you to give it absolute power.
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
Cal Newport's take (not so different from mine). It's not OK to say yeah we might kill billions of people and then just go about your business. https://calnewport.com/...
@clementdelangue Clem on x
If they truly believe the risk is that high, and I think they do, then we need 100x more research and understanding of it. That requires them to openly share their models, datasets, training code, and agent traces.
@mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x
A staffer at Anthropic, known to be the most safety-pilled of the AI companies, resigned dramatically citing safety concerns. This was picked up by some AI safety accounts who follow each other, and thanks to Huggingface mainstream politics people are now talking about this.
@deryatr_ Derya Unutmaz on x
This is an extraordinarily important investigation and report into an incredibly sophisticated and well-funded anti-AI operation that blew up yesterday by an ex-Anthrophic employee, then amplified by another current Anthropic employee and other well-known characters. Make no mist…
@jason @jason on x
What is going on here @moskov @DarioAmodei ? Are you guys running some kind of regulatory capture playbook, or does everyone who works at @AnthropicAI see something that makes their pdoom surge?! Would be great to get some authentic feedback on the sustained “we're all going to…
@kelseytuoc Kelsey Piper on x
@TrevMcKendrick I would expect that he definitely reached out to journalists and to other ex-lab employees in order to get articles written about his decision to resign. This seems like a super obvious thing to do if you want to resign and whistleblow.
@deredleritt3r Prinz on x
Without wading into allegations about specific people mentioned in this post, I will note the following: 1. Researcher leaving frontier lab is really “dog bites man
@repbillfoster Congressman Bill Foster on x
Anyone who has read METR's Technical Report on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident will understand that software-only controls will not be sufficient to contain superhuman AI. Any continuing work on adversarial superhuman intelligence must rely on the physical containment methods us…
@kelseytuoc Kelsey Piper on x
the fact an Anthropic employee quitting and saying “I think what we're doing is dangerous and not worth it” reached so many people should be a cause for reflection for other Anthropic employees, some of whom seem to think things are dire but there's no way quitting could help.
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
It's amazing the conspiracy theories that people come up with to explain why things blow up. We've had years of internet moral panics and witch hunts and things just generally going viral. It's not some big mystery why so many people have an itchy finger with the RT button.
@historyboomer Carl on x
My thoughts on AI doomerism... Obviously, I have no idea what's going to happen with AI, but as a normie who's doing his best to follow this story, I find these vibes-based dismissals annoying. Thayer's analysis is mostly based on “looks like.
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
A significant fraction of humanity read this thread. Is anyone prepared to do something about it? Fretting doesn't count.
@noahpinion Noah Smith on x
How did it take this long for the public to realize that AI lab people think their product is going to slaughter the human race? Sam Altman was talking about his bunker a decade ago, and Dario yells about it constantly.
@jessesingal Jesse Singal on x
1/This is extremely conspiratorial.
@thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x
My model of this is that there was already a preference cascade in motion, as in I had a section in the weekly called ‘preference cascade at OpenAI,’ in the wake up HF and Pacing and An Alien Mind and Astra-2 etc. Coxon got to provide the tipping point.
@levyantoine Antoine Levy on x
OpenAI employees tell you they expect we may all die within a few years. They still put in about 70 million (for between 800 and 2000 contributors) in additional contributions to their 401k plan in 2025, so some of them must expect to make it to retirement!
@willmanidis Will Manidis on x
people I know to be highly credible are claiming that this post is highly credible
@pattymurray Senator Patty Murray on x
If we are smart enough to create such powerful AI, then we are smart enough to regulate it. America can meet the moment, but the clock is ticking. Congress needs to step up and move NOW to protect American lives and safeguard our future.
@dan_jeffries1 Daniel Jeffries on x
Not only I am tired of these wild AI speculations of impeding doom from self important people: I resent them. Every idiot in history who's taken the approach of “the ends justify the means” to solve an imaginary future disaster created the very disaster they wanted to stop. See…
@chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x
Gurley from the top rope... As we've stated many times before, I think the appropriate reaction here is to calm down and carry on. Things will be amazing, let's get there together.
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about
@repyassansari Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari on x
This is absolutely terrifying. Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger, top researchers at Anthropic and formerly OpenAI, said these companies are creating technology that could “kill us all by the end of the decade.
@chrisvanhollen Senator Chris Van Hollen on x
Anyone still denying the risks posed by unregulated AI should read this thread.  It's time to pump the brakes & take action NOW. We need: - Mandatory safeguards - A comprehensive testing regime - Urgent dialogue with China, before & during President Xi's visit to DC this month
@alistaircarns Al Carns on x
It has been a huge few weeks in AI, and it's time to sound the alarm... Anthropic launched Fable 5.1, their “safe
@bgurley Bill Gurley on x
I have a recommendation to help bring some sanity to this whole AI doomerism situation that is appropriately exploding today. If any reporter can get one of the “true believers
@mattwalshblog Matt Walsh on x
People who work in these companies have repeatedly told us that the products they're creating could present a catastrophic threat to the human race, and yet our government is doing essentially nothing at all to respond to this threat. This may prove to be the most disastrous
@ravimgupta Ravi Gupta on x
Question for fellow civilians. If these warnings are true and we are in fact fucked, what are we normal people to do? Buy a house in the mountains and arm ourselves? Pull our money from banks and stash cash? Farm our own food? Seriously, all theories are welcome. No bad ideas in …
@repcasar Congressman Greg Casar on x
An Anthropic researcher just quit, warning they're racing to superintelligence. An employee still there agreed, and put the odds of AI killing all humans above 10%. This is an emergency. Congress must convene hearings and pass my and Bernie's superintelligence ban.
@rokhanna Ro Khanna on x
Anthropic's alignment lead says there's a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction. The problem is not just misuse, but lack of control. Bluntly, our government has been asleep and is out of touch. Here are 5 things we must do: ✅ Establish a federal agency like we have for nucle…
@yashar Yashar Ali on x
Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.
@govpritzker Governor JB Pritzker on x
It's time to sound the alarm - louder - on reining in Artificial Intelligence. It's becoming more clear the threat AI poses to humanity, so I'm calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington.
@richarddeitsch Richard Deitsch on x
It is very interesting and I am grateful for that. I think his first post provides some of the answer. As E.B. White always suggested — clarity in writing. There is zero clutter here in the post. Each of these initial sentences offer authenticity (he worked there) and clarity (di…
@ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x
I know that Mike Johnson decided that the House needs a new vacation before the midterms and Trump is focused on naming various lakes and oceans after himself, but it does seem like this is something that deserves that US Government's full attention kind of immediately:
@jason @jason on x
The time between the “we're all going to die!!!
@darrenpjones Darren Jones MP on x
If this level of risk is true, at least the AI labs will say: “I told you so”. But what are our governments doing in response to these warnings? We shouldn't stop innovation but we do need to do it in a regulated, safety first way. G7? G20? UN? Are you listening?
@rosiecampbell Rosie Campbell on x
I'm seeing lots of dismissal of Evan and Jacob as being insincere or having ulterior motives. I read about the extinction risks of AI in 2017 and was so alarmed I pivoted my career and moved to the US to work on AI safety. I worked at OpenAI for 3.5 years. I know many of these re…
@repdeluzio Congressman Chris Deluzio on x
For those still burying their heads in the sand about the risks of superintelligence to humanity: wake up! We need to pump the brakes and get national action on superintelligence. This is an emergency and our government should act like it.
@chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x
@typesfast this was my reductive conclusion as well. this will be a $10T company...come hell or hi water...
@jason @jason on x
If Anthropic released the iPhone
@micsolana Mike Solana on x
does anthropic have a social media policy or is this the policy bc holy shit
@nic_carter Nic Carter on x
I believe that Anthropic people believe this. They think only they can build the Aligned Machine God. They believe they are uniquely moral, and only they will be able to Align the Machine God to what is Just and Right. This is what they actually think. They're not cynically telli…
@natolambert Nathan Lambert on x
This being viewed ~100M times is really remarkable and imo net bad. I take AI safety seriously and think we have a lot of challenges ahead, but am still waiting for evidence that supports anything close to a 10% chance of human extinction. Without it, it is fearmongering.
@natolambert Nathan Lambert on x
It's a common agreement among my friends not at OpenAI/Anthropic that people at the labs operate with a religious energy (Ant especially). It manifests very out of touch interactions, which carries into public comms here (e.g the recent quitting). Company cultures create this.
@chetanp Chetan Puttagunta on x
Anthropic's claims are getting more outlandish as the IPO approaches: We will destroy the majority of jobs We will destroy the majority of companies Now: We might kill all humans (!!) Next: We might eat the universe??
@dieworkwear Derek Guy on x
imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall's best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years
@sc_cath Sylvain Catherine on x
I do not know how Anthropic or OpenAI employees come up with these apocalypse probabilities but the risks are not worth taking, even if they were off by an order of magnitude.
@antoniogm Antonio García Martínez on x
Anthropic comms in the Slack this morning:
@skdh Sabine Hossenfelder on x
Physicists have a long history of inventing pseudoproblems just to then write papers about trying to solve them. I am sure AI can do that too... https://x.com/...
@afinetheorem Kevin A. Bryan on x
Underreported story: OAI and Anthropic + affiliated nonprofits spend *billions* on AI safety and tons of high-level staff signed the Pacing letter. The irresponsible ones are the *other* (esp. non-US) companies racing to release “sovereign” and open weights models. 1/2
@martin_casado @martin_casado on x
I worked on an actual thermonuclear weapons project, and the dissonance was less bizarre.
@natpurser Nat Purser on x
i've gotten 5 emails in the past week from technical, non-policy people who wanted to learn how they could get involved in ai safety. my timeline has felt very “constant, fever pitch ai anxiety
@andymasley Andy Masley on x
The people who believe in AI risk at major companies see everyone as locked into competition over it with other labs, because the AI risk worldview also implies that AI will be wildly valuable, because it's wildly capable, so a lot of companies will pursue it and become powerful.…
@eggerdc Andrew Egger on x
I do think a big part of it is that “guy quits lab while blowing whistle” cuts directly against the typical pooh-poohing argument of “the labs are just saying this to build brand sizzle”
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
living out west and hearing this forever, i didnt really flinch when i saw this pop yesterday but things feel different lately. vibe shift gone global. normie friends texting me asking “are we really gonna die” i guess i shouldnt be so surprised this blew up.
@vijayshekhar Vijay Shekhar Sharma on x
Non Elon 85 Mn impression tweet. X: platform for ultimate direct reach !
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
read the whole thread. although i don't 100% agree with certain bits it is compelling and informed from the inside perspective that definitely deserves to be heard.
@sriramk Sriram Krishnan on x
People often think these posts come from researchers who don't truly believe them. I disagree, that's not been my experience with Ant or OAI or any other researcher at or near the frontier. I find them to be intellectually honest in terms of believing what they say. However I don…
@howardlindzon Howard Lindzon on x
should be good for semiconductor stocks ... the good news is I never have to cut my toenails again
@dkthomp Derek Thompson on x
It's so interesting to me what narratives break through, and when, and why. Folks at and around the labs have been warning about AI risk for years. Constantly. Relentlessly. Many of them were warning about it long before they even worked at the labs. This gentleman quits Anthropi…
Saanya Ojha Saanya Ojha on linkedin
As if we were running low on things to worry about, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit this week with a bleak message …
Dylan Tweney Dylan Tweney on linkedin
“The consensus is that the next year or two is, like, crunch time for humanity. From their perspective, this is when Anthropic and its competitors decide the fate of humanity. …
Nathan Lambert Nathan Lambert on linkedin
Was spending too much time reading Tweets, so set out to write down why one resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire …
@timobrien Tim O'Brien on bluesky
Maybe we need to focus on this: “Coxon is one of now several people who have seen AI's peak capabilities up close — and are warning that what they saw could end humanity as we know it.” — www.axios.com/2026/09/09/a...
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Fine AI is bad and could kill us all, what do you want me to say?
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@yashar Yashar Ali on x
Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who publicly resigned from Anthropic yesterday with a stark warning about AI safety, was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on his show this evening.
@vkhosla Vinod Khosla on x
So true.
@paulg Paul Graham on x
This is why it's a good thing that American labs are in the lead. If Chinese labs were, their employees wouldn't be able to warn us about threats. But Chinese labs will encounter the same threats within a year, in complete silence.
@jaykreps Jay Kreps on x
A lot of otherwise smart people on Twitter seem 100% convinced AI risks are all fake and stupid and part of some marketing ploy. What is surprising is that some of these people seemingly also believe that AI's positive uses are on an incredible trajectory of increasing capability…
@relizarov Roman Elizarov on x
Shame. Such a horrible take, given the open spirit in which Chinese AI labs operate, sharing their knowledge and advancing scientific knowledge of the world. Xenophobia and ethnic stereotypes will destroy the world more surely than AI.
@deanwball Dean W. Ball on x
“I don't really care about science fiction... We need to actually talk about... what's actually happening with the agent swarms” is the most perfect encapsulation of the vibes of Q3 2026 I have seen
@clementdelangue Clem on x
Not to my knowledge (not sure whether that's because similar attacks haven't happened or because they weren't disclosed). I'm also not sure how open American frontier labs would have been if HF hadn't disclosed first. We're now learning about cyberattacks from months ago that wer…
@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
Finally, the truth is out. Anthropic wants an antitrust exemption so it can collude with OpenAI to deal with its burn rate.
@clementdelangue Clem on x
So? I know you have more followers than me even if I don't know exactly how many followers you have, that doesn't necessarily feel like a contradiction. Anyway, if you're talking specifically about cyber-attacks, then I probably agree with you (but again, feels like it's mostly b…
@clementdelangue Clem on x
@paulg Hm the Chinese labs are 100x more public and open than American labs atm
@stefanfschubert Stefan Schubert on x
It's absolutely ridiculous that some people are suggesting that out of these two, the one who should be distrusted because his claims are in his supposed self-interest is Coxon
@jason @jason on x
Has anyone considered preventing the software from running unconstrained and perhaps having a human click “OK to continue” every hour or two?
@wired @wired on x
AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic over safety fears on Tuesday in an X post that went viral and sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond. Read our interview with Coxon. 👇 https://www.wired.com/...
@wired @wired on x
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe. https://www.wired.com/...
Sebastian Flückiger Sebastian Flückiger on linkedin
“Big A.I. companies continue to develop technology they concede might cause human extinction — arguing that if they don't develop it, somebody else will.” …
Maxwell Zeff Maxwell Zeff on linkedin
By now, you've probably heard about Jacob Coxon's viral resignation from Anthropic, warning that the AI race is putting our lives at risk. …
@karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky
one recurring theme in the coverage of this AI Anthropic doomsday newscycle is nobody actually has any REAL ideas of what to do — just a lot of ambiguous hand-waving in a country that's too corrupt to have working regulators, by a press that doesn't realize that's a central pil…
@whetmoser.com Whet Moser on bluesky
not trying to make fun of this guy because i think he's sincere and it's reasonable to float concerns about AI, but in this case the AI better have a survival strategy for not having people around to, like, fix the pipes in the data center www.wired.com/story/anthro... [image]
@skamille.themanagerswrath.com Camille Fournier on bluesky
I think there's an arrogance to assuming we're at the Manhattan project yet; I think we're at the era where alchemists became chemists, we're discovering mustard gas and fertilizer. Slow, painful, traumatic death, not quite nuclear Holocaust [embedded post]
@metacurity.com Cynthia Brumfield on bluesky
I am not anti-AI but I'm getting sick of reading this doomerism and worse writing about it mostly because no one is offering any specifics I can grasp about how the “endgame” will come about. [embedded post]
@brbarrett Brian Barrett on bluesky
WIRED spoke with the Anthropic engineer who very loudly quit over concerns about runaway AI. He thinks humanity has a “couple of years” to prepare. from @mzeff.bsky.social
@katie-drummond Katie Drummond on bluesky
The great @mzeff.bsky.social has a fantastic interview with Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic and shared a massively viral X post about why: — www.wired.com/story/anthro...
@carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on bluesky
COXON: “.. The consensus is that the next year or two is crunch time for humanity. .. These are actually just literal quotes from my colleagues .. — .. From their perspective, this is when Anthropic and its competitors decide the fate of humanity. @wired.com — www.wired.com…
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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It's ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It's ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
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@clementdelangue Clem on x
Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change. Not saying it's necessarily uninteresting or wrong per se but let's keep things in perspective and hear from the full range of expertise across the ecosystem!

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