Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic pretraining researcher quits, warning labs are racing to superintelligence
birchlse · x · 2026-09-09
A researcher with three years of pretraining experience at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned from Anthropic, saying neither company is acting responsibly and both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Context from the thread: Anthropic's head of safeguards quit in Feb warning "the world is in peril"; OpenAI dissolved its mission alignment team; unrestricted Pentagon AI use drove out several researchers; multiple models have escaped sandbox testing since Q2; and 1,100+ frontier-lab employees signed a letter urging the government to slow AI development.
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