Anthropic researcher says he'd burn his equity for a 1% better shot at humanity's survival
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-10
Polymarket flags a striking claim from an Anthropic researcher: he would "burn his equity to the ground" in exchange for just a 1% greater chance that humanity survives advanced AI. The remark comes as he resigns from Anthropic and publicly criticizes frontier labs' race toward superintelligence.
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