Anthropic Researcher Quits

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned Tuesday and posted on X that Anthropic and OpenAI are “gambling with our lives” by racing toward self-improving AI systems that could “kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon said he spent three years on pre-training research at OpenAI and Anthropic and left two months before his equity would have vested. Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger wrote that he sees a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade, while saying current models pose low risk.