Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic researcher resigns, says labs are gambling lives racing to self-improving superintelligence
csuwildcat · x · 2026-09-11
A researcher who spent roughly three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic announced his resignation from Anthropic, accusing both labs of racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and "gambling with our lives."
The post also quotes Neil Chilson's rebuttal: he reviewed a book by two prominent AI-safety advocates making the same doomer claim, and concluded that if that book is the best case for the Doomer position, he isn't worried.
The exchange captures the escalating safety debate around frontier labs—an insider's public exit paired with a pushback against doomerism.
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