Anthropic researcher quits, says AI race is 'gambling with our lives'
Coxon says Anthropic is more responsible than OpenAI but cannot safely police itself while competing to build self-improving systems.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: WIRED
Why it matters
Anthropic sells safety as a competitive advantage. Coxon's exit argues that competition can force even a safety-led lab into risks its own researchers say it cannot control.
Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess), a pretraining researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday and accused both labs of racing toward self-improving AI without a credible way to keep it under human control.…
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