Ex-Anthropic Researcher on BBC: Insiders See Over 10% Extinction Risk Daily
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-14
Jacob Coxon, the ex-OpenAI and Anthropic researcher whose resignation post went viral, tells the BBC that without slowing down, "we could all die in the immediate future" is no exaggeration, and that many insiders coding frontier models carry a >10% human-extinction probability estimate with them daily.
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