'AI Could Kill Us All By Decade-End': Anthropic Researcher Quits, Drops A Bombshell
A former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI has publicly warned that AI companies are racing toward potentially dangerous, self-improving superintelligence. He claims that internal fears about the technology's existential risks are being suppressed in favor of competitive pressures.
Why it matters
This highlights the growing internal dissent within the AI industry regarding safety protocols and the ethical implications of the current 'arms race' for AGI.
A 27-year-old AI researcher, Jacob Coxon, walked away from Anthropic after a three-year stint. Not quietly. Not with a bland "pursuing other opportunities" LinkedIn post. He went straight to X and lit a match."I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote. "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."That was just the opening line. Coxon didn't stop there. In a thread that quickly went viral, he made a claim that should stop anyone scrolling mid-swipe:"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.
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