Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Risks as Doomsday Debate Snowballs Across OpenAI, Meta, Google
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-09-14
NYT's Mike Isaac reports on snowballing superintelligence-risk conversations inside AI companies.
- Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned this week citing concerns that OpenAI and Anthropic are "gambling with our lives"
- Internal Anthropic chats reacted: "It's what we've all been saying — it's just public-facing now"
- Researchers at OpenAI, Meta and Google are organizing via office channels, encrypted chats and private dinners to raise awareness of AI risks
- The debate has gone mainstream — the author says 70-year-old retirees are now emailing him about recursive self-improvement
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