A colleague at Anthropic responded by saying the company has no plan to address alignment risks from superintelligence

Jacob Coxon warns that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity after resigning from Anthropic over concerns about the rapid development of advanced AI systems.

He went from obscure AI researcher to notable independent AI critic literally overnight.

CEO Dario Amodei published the warning in the aftermath of the viral resignation of whistleblower Jacob Coxon, who said AI was posing an existential threat to humanity.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who raised alarm about OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit, warning that AI labs are 'gambling with our lives'. Coxon, 27, declared his departure in a series of X posts, saying both Anthropic and its rival OpenAI are failing to act responsibly as they race to build advanced AI systems.

Jacob Coxon is a 27-year-old British AI researcher who formerly worked for OpenAI and Anthropic, the companies behind ChatGPT and Claude.

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who also worked at OpenAI, has raised a chilling warning about the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Coxon says AI could soon become “superhuman systems” capable of hacking anything,

"Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue wrote on X.