Anthropic pretraining researcher quits, accuses OpenAI and Anthropic of gambling lives on self-improving superintelligence
randomquestion11111 · reddit · 2026-09-09
A researcher who spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic announced his resignation, saying neither company is acting responsibly.
- In his statement he accuses both frontier labs of 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives'.
- It's another public safety-driven departure from a frontier lab, notable because the critique comes from someone with firsthand experience inside both top labs.
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