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Jacob Coxon's exit from Anthropic landed differently Tuesday night. The AI researcher did not announce a startup or lodge a policy complaint.
He used his departure to state publicly that frontier AI companies are "gambling with our lives" with systems their teams "earnestly believe...
could kill us all by the end of the decade." What the resignation said The risk Coxon identified sits in the future, not in today's models.
He pointed to the prospect of "self-improving superintelligence" producing "superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources." On why labs continue building despite that view, Coxon wrote that researchers have either not "internalized the civilizational stakes" or believe they must "speedrun" the race to superintelligence first, before a less responsible actor gets there.
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