Ex-Anthropic/OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon warns AI could copy itself before you unplug it
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-11
Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher who resigned, told CBS News that "we can't just unplug it" if AI goes rogue: since AI is just code, it could copy itself over the internet to other machines — "you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there, and maybe it makes 10,000 copies." A rare on-record warning about containment risk from an AI insider.
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