An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
What's happening
Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent three years doing pretraining work at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic this week and posted on X warning that the company is "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Anthropic's own alignment lead reportedly co-signed the message rather than walking it back. The resignation has coincided with a broader industry conversation, including Dario Amodei of Anthropic calling for a brake on LLM development and roundtables in outlets like MIT Technology Review debating whether advanced AI could destroy humanity.
Why it's trending
A high-profile resignation with a stark "doomsday" claim landed at the same moment several industry leaders and publications are publicly debating AI extinction risks.
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- The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs…
MIT Tech ReviewSep 15 - Another Google AI safety researcher has quit, warning we might all be about to dier/OpenAISep 15
- I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AIHackerNewsSep 15
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