Researcher quits Anthropic after 3 years: both labs 'racing to self-improving superintelligence'
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-09
A researcher who spent three years doing pretraining work at OpenAI and Anthropic announced resignation from Anthropic, saying neither lab is acting responsibly and both are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.' CSER's SOhEigeartaigh added that builders privately express fear even as they soften their public language.
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