AI COULD KILL US ALL: Why an Anthropic Researcher’s Exit Echoes a Darker Warning
AI COULD KILL US ALL: Why an Anthropic Researcher's Exit Echoes a Darker Warning, Brookings AI Job Losses, Government Precedents Behind Alien Encounter Response, Is the Government Prepared for an Alien Encounter, Will AI Eliminate My Job
Did an Anthropic researcher really warn that AI could kill everyone? Yes—Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic saying the company and OpenAI are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," and a current Anthropic safety lead has since agreed the extinction risk is real. That admission from inside the industry is what turns a warning like The Government's Plan to Contain the Alien Contagion's loss-of-control scenario from speculation into something insiders are now saying out loud. AI COULD KILL US ALL: What Jacob Coxon Said The headline sounds like science fiction, but the person sounding the alarm worked inside two of the world’s leading artificial-intelligence laboratories. Jacob Coxon announced that he had resigned from Anthropic after spending three years in pretraining research at Anthropic and OpenAI. His accusation…