AI researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic resigns, says both are 'gambling with our lives'
bparrish · reddit · 2026-09-09
Hilbert Spaess, an AI researcher who previously worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned, publicly saying the two labs are "gambling with our lives" in the race toward superintelligence. Another safety-motivated exit from a frontier lab.
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