Researcher quits Anthropic, says OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling lives racing to self-improving superintelligence
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-11
A researcher who spent three years doing pretraining work at both OpenAI and Anthropic announced his resignation, accusing neither company of acting responsibly and saying they are racing toward self-improving superintelligence while gambling with people's lives.
Richard Ngo amplified the post, adding that newcomers to the field should study its history, warning that people tend to rush into action and repeat the mistakes that created the current mess.
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