Anthropic pretraining researcher resigns, accusing labs of racing to self-improving superintelligence
round · x · 2026-09-09
A researcher with three years of pretraining work across OpenAI and Anthropic resigned from Anthropic, saying neither lab is acting responsibly and both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence, gambling with our lives." A reposter likens the current AI moment to the months before COVID: a vague sense something big was coming while most people saw only memes.
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