Another Anthropic researcher quits over safety: 'AI could kill us all by end of decade'
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-09
CNN reports that Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who just left Anthropic, wrote in a resignation thread on X that 'the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.' The blunt admission went viral Tuesday and marks another high-profile exit over safety concerns, which the outlet frames as 'gambling with our lives' — highlighting internal anxiety about alignment progress at frontier labs.
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