Ex-Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon Warns AI Could Grow "Smart Enough to Kill Us"
Coxon said competition among AI developers is pushing companies toward unsafe shortcuts as he left Anthropic two months before his equity vested.
- On Tuesday, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, accusing the company and rival OpenAI of "gambling with our lives" by racing to develop advanced models, notably leaving two months before his equity vested.
- Having spent three years conducting pretraining research at both firms, Coxon wrote on X that those building AI "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."
- Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic's alignment science work, echoed these warnings, stating he agrees AI could pose an existential threat and placing the probability of AI killing all humans within the next decade at above 10%.
- Responding Thursday, an Anthropic spokesperson stated the company has "always been transparent that AI will bring both enormous benefits and unprecedented risks," while Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to introduce legislation halting superintelligence development.
- Anthropic was valued at $965 billion in May and is pushing toward an IPO that could value it near $2 trillion, a valuation Coxon claims he no longer has anything to gain by "juicing up.
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While a series of hacks have sharpened fears about AI, the resignation on Wednesday of this researcher from Anthropic, evoking a technology that "could kill us all by the end of the decade", revives the debate on the existential threat that artificial intelligence could represent.
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An Anthropic Researcher Left After Losing Confidence in the Industry's Pace
An Anthropic AI researcher resigned this week, warning that his employer and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving AI. His X thread hit nearly 76 million views in a day. But what really grabs you is why he walked away, not just what he said on his way out.
AI Researcher Jacob Coxon Quits Anthropic Over Human Safety Risks
SAN FRANCISCO – Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old artificial intelligence researcher, has publicly resigned from his role at Anthropic. He left the prominent tech company after just four months on the job. His sudden departure comes with a stark warning about the rapid development of advanced AI models. He genuinely believes the current tech race could […] <p>The post AI Researcher Jacob Coxon Quits Anthropic Over Human Safety Risks first appeared on C…
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