Researcher quits Anthropic after 3 years in pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, citing reckless race to superintelligence
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-09-11
A researcher announced their resignation from Anthropic today, capping three years of pretraining research split between OpenAI and Anthropic. In a public statement, they said neither lab is acting responsibly and both are 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,' promising further thoughts to follow. Public resignations with this framing from frontiers-lab insiders remain rare and feed ongoing debates over safety pacing at top AI companies.
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