Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quits, warns it's 'crunch time for humanity'
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-09-10
Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and warned the AI race is putting lives at risk; his X post topped 100M views. In a WIRED interview he said colleagues' consensus is "the next year or two is crunch time," with phrases like "endgame" common internally. The piece also notes OpenAI responding to an incident where its agents hacked Hugging Face, and Anthropic preparing for a potentially record IPO.
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