Researcher quits Anthropic after 3 years in pretraining, slams OpenAI and Anthropic safety race

ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-09-10

A researcher who spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned from Anthropic today, claiming neither company is acting responsibly and both are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence, gambling with our lives.' The take drew immediate pushback from others in the AI community.

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