Anthropic Pretraining Researcher Resigns, Slams Labs Racing Toward Superintelligence
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-11
A researcher who spent three years on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic publicly resigned from Anthropic, saying neither lab is acting responsibly and both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence, gambling with our lives". Separately, a cross-lab group has been working since February to help staff think about how to use their leverage if they stay.
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