'We may not survive this': Another Anthropic employee quits with stark AI warning
Another safety team employee has resigned from Anthropic, citing concerns that the company is racing toward superintelligence without adequate safety measures. The former employee warns that humanity may not survive the transition to systems smarter than humans.
Why it matters
Internal dissent at leading AI firms highlights the growing tension between rapid commercial development and existential safety risks.
Days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that AI companies were “gambling with our lives” in their race to build self-improving superintelligence, another employee from the company’s safety team has also stepped down, raising concerns over the risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems.Joe Benton, the former manager of Anthropic’s Scalable Oversight team, said he left the company’s safety team two weeks ago because he believes frontier AI companies are moving too quickly towards systems that could become far more capable than humans, without adequately addressing the risks.“I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago.
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