Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon quits, likens building AI to 'summoning an alien species'
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-14
Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee, quit Anthropic this week. In an ABC interview he compared building AI to "summoning an alien mind we don't fully understand," calling the idea terrifying even without any concrete scenario. The retweeter criticized media for continuing to platform such claims.
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