Researcher quits Anthropic after 3 years: OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-10
A researcher who spent three years on pretraining at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned from the latter, saying neither company is acting responsibly and both are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence. A rebroadcaster adds that AI insiders are far more pessimistic in private than their public personas suggest.
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