Anthropic pretraining researcher quits, says OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling on self-improving superintelligence
alejandroll10 · x · 2026-09-10
A researcher going by hilbertspaess announced their resignation from Anthropic, citing three years of pretraining research across both OpenAI and Anthropic. They claim neither company is acting responsibly and both are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence, gambling with our lives.' The post adds to a growing pattern of public departures criticizing frontier-lab R&D practices.
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