Anthropic Pretraining Researcher Jacob Coxon Resigns, Citing Reckless Race to Self-Improving AI
wrongful1520 · hn · 2026-09-09
A Hacker News post links to Jacob Coxon's announcement that he resigned from Anthropic. Per his own post, he spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic and says neither company is acting responsibly, claiming they are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
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