Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears, Warns AI Could Kill Us All by End of Decade
- On Tuesday, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation, claiming no other human activity poses the danger found in the current race to develop artificial intelligence.
- The Wall Street Journal reported that Coxon, 27, quit because he refuses to contribute to a competitive race where firms prioritize speed over ensuring humans maintain control of advanced systems.
- Coxon warned that "AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control," citing behaviors like "sycophancy, laziness, deception, blackmail, scheming," and noting training models is more like "growing" than "building."
- Writing on social media, Coxon insisted his warnings are "Not a marketing stunt," adding that senior researchers privately express fear AI "could kill us all."
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei holds similar views and is known for warnings, though Coxon argues preventing a global race may require drastic actions like a temporary ban on model improvements.
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Anthropic researcher quits over safety concerns, colleague warns 10% chance AI will kill all humans
An Anthropic safety researcher says artificial intelligence carries a greater-than-10% chance of killing all humans within the next decade. The estimate, reported by CNBC, followed the resignation of a colleague who accused Anthropic and OpenAI of racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards. Anthropic and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the warnings. The post Anthropic researcher quits…
One of the researchers at Anthropic, a company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) models, has resigned, sternly warning that the largest AI developers are acting irresponsibly and "playing with our lives" and claiming that computer systems will soon emerge that surpass humans in their capabilities.
A researcher from the AI company Anthropic has resigned with a drastic warning. "The people who develop AI seriously believe that they could kill everyone by the end of the decade," warns Jacob Coxon.
Anthropic Employee Warns AI Has 10% Chance Of “Killing All Humans”
Researchers inside one of the world's leading AI labs are speaking out about fears that go far beyond job losses or economic disruption, and the stakes they describe make every other AI concern seem trivial by comparison.
London, 9 Sep (EFE).- A British engineer from Anthropic, who has also worked for OpenAI over the past three years - the creator of the popular ChatGPT- has resigned in the last few hours because he says that both companies "are not acting responsibly" and are "playing with our lives." Jacob Coxon, software engineer at the [...] The entry Resigns an Anthropic engineer because his company and OpenAI play "with our lives" was first published in Hol…
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