Researcher Who Quit Anthropic Says 'Crunch Time for Humanity': Inside the Lab's 'Mini Manhattan Project'
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-10
AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, warning the AI race endangers everyone; his X post topped 100 million views. In a WIRED interview, he described a "mini Manhattan project" inside Anthropic and quoted colleagues using terms like "endgame" and "crunch time" — a shared consensus that the next year or two will decide humanity's fate.
- Coxon worked on pretraining and says many builders inside frontier labs share his alarm about the shrinking window to make AI safe
- The warning lands amid OpenAI's response to an agent security incident on Hugging Face and Anthropic reportedly preparing what could be the largest IPO ever
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