Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns over race toward self-improving AI
The pretraining researcher worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, then concluded that private labs cannot safely coordinate a slowdown.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Coxon's exit challenges Anthropic's central bargain: that a safety-focused lab can keep advancing frontier capabilities without reproducing the race dynamics it warns about.
Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess), a pretraining researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday after concluding that competition among frontier AI labs was pushing them toward systems they may be unable to control.…
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