Ex-Anthropic/OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon explains AI extinction risk to NBC
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-14
Jacob Coxon, the ex-Anthropic and OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns, explained his worst-case AI scenarios in an NBC News interview.
His core analogy: building AI is like "inviting an alien mind onto the planet" — you're creating a human-level or superhuman-level mind without understanding what it wants, what it thinks, or how it thinks.
Looking forward, he worries AI could control autonomous drones or the robots currently being built at rapid pace. Full video is on NBC News' YouTube channel.
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