Ex-Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon Tells BBC Insiders Are 'Genuinely Frightened'
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-14
Jacob Coxon, 27, who worked at OpenAI then Anthropic before resigning, tells the BBC that at the current pace "we could all die in the immediate future" is no exaggeration, and many insiders coding frontier models carry a >10% extinction-risk estimate daily. Dario Amodei's weekend essay calling for a slowdown is backed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who favor industry-wide deceleration, regulation and independent monitoring. Coxon welcomes the slowdown but says it must be coordinated with China to avoid an international race — and insists lab employees asking for regulation are "completely serious."
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