Pretraining Researcher Resigns From Anthropic, Warns of Race to Self-Improving Superintelligence
DevDminGod · x · 2026-09-09
An engineer who spent three years doing pretraining research across both OpenAI and Anthropic announced he resigned from Anthropic today. He says neither company is acting responsibly — both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," promising more thoughts in a follow-up thread.
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