Ex-OpenAI and Anthropic Researcher Now Fears the AI He Helped Build Could Kill Us
timemagazine · reddit · 2026-09-10
Time profiles Jacob Coxon, a researcher who helped build frontier AI at OpenAI and later Anthropic. Having seen the technology up close, he has since turned whistleblower of sorts, warning that the powerful systems he worked on could pose an existential risk to humanity.
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