Researcher quits Anthropic, accuses OpenAI and Anthropic of reckless race to superintelligence
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-10
A 27-year-old pretraining researcher announced his resignation from Anthropic in a public exit manifesto, claiming he spent three years doing pretraining research across both OpenAI and Anthropic. He argues neither company is acting responsibly and both are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence, "gambling with our lives." Because his X account is new and his tenure at Anthropic was reportedly only two months, some observers suspect a coordinated agitator ahead of an IPO — but the manifesto adds to a growing list of public safety-driven departures from frontier labs.
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