Researcher quits Anthropic after 3 years: both OpenAI and Anthropic are 'racing to self-improving superintelligence'
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-09
A researcher who spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic publicly resigned from Anthropic today, saying neither company is acting responsibly and both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." The resignation was amplified by prominent investors like Bill Ackman.
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