Ex-Anthropic researcher quits over 'reckless' superintelligence race, fueling AI doomerism debate
benfielding · x · 2026-09-11
This post layers two opposing takes:
- Quoted tweet: An author with three years of pretraining research across both OpenAI and Anthropic announced their resignation from Anthropic, saying neither company is acting responsibly and both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence, gambling with our lives."
- Main text (RT of Laura Shin): She pushes back on AI doomerism, arguing every new technology draws doomsday takes, that AI is a change of a different magnitude but outcomes remain in human hands, and that mistakes will be learned from. She sharply compares doomers to the SBF-style "self-appointed gods" circle.
The juxtaposition is striking: an insider resigns over loss-of-control risk while a public commentator argues risk narratives are overblown.
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