Anthropic researcher resigns warning of AGI race; critics demand an actual mechanism
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-10
Jacob Hilton, a researcher who spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation from Anthropic, saying neither company is acting responsibly and both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."
Quoter Forrest Knight pushes back: after reading the thread and several interviews, Jacob has yet to explain how — claims like "soon superhuman systems that can hack anything and acquire real power" lack any mechanism, and there's no laid-out path from here to "AI could kill us all by the end of the decade," making it akin to Elon's "all jobs automated in a decade" assertion.
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