Researcher quits Anthropic, says OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling lives on self-improving superintelligence
Aiden_Tech_Ai · x · 2026-10-17
A researcher who spent three years doing pretraining work at both OpenAI and Anthropic announced their resignation from Anthropic, publicly stating that neither company is acting responsibly. In their words, both labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," with more reflections promised to follow. It adds to a growing pattern of safety-motivated exits from frontier AI labs.
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