Yglesias to OpenAI staff: stop funding Leading The Future super PAC, or quit
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-14
Columnist Matthew Yglesias argues the AI safety debate hit a moment of momentum after Anthropic senior employee Jacob Coxon quit over recursive self-improvement extinction risk and a Hugging Face breach. His message to concerned OpenAI employees: convince leadership to stop funding the Leading The Future super PAC—and if you can't, quit.
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