Jacob Coxon doubles down in AMA, slams Anthropic leadership's race logic and recursive self-improvement
Capable-Blueberry653 · reddit · 2026-09-16
Jacob Coxon, the researcher whose viral exit from Anthropic warned AI could kill everyone by decade's end, doubled down in an X AMA. His core argument: Anthropic leadership justifies racing to the frontier with "someone's gonna do it anyway" logic, which he calls a cop-out — "if the race is inevitable you should not contribute." He also criticized the company's push into recursive self-improvement, letting models improve themselves and build their own successors, calling that the genuinely reckless part.
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