S7, E278 - Anthropic Researcher Quits: "We Believe AI Could Kill All Humans"

S7, E278 - Anthropic Researcher Quits: "We Believe AI Could Kill All Humans"

Author: A Problem Lounge Show September 11, 2026 Duration: 11:13
Send us Fan Mail Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then Anthropic. This week he resigned and posted a seven-part thread claiming neither company is acting responsibly with how fast they're racing toward self-improving AI. It hit 100 million views in a day. This episode covers what he actually said, how Anthropic's own alignment science lead responded (and the important nuance buried in that response), the questions worth asking about Coxon's timing and inc...

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