Anthropic Safety Lead Puts >10% Chance on AI 'Killing All Humans' After Researcher Quits
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-09-09
Hours after researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned — accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives" — a senior Anthropic safety researcher said there is more than a 10 percent chance AI "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade. The episode exposes internal rifts over safety culture at frontier AI labs.
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