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Una Hajdari

'A gamble with our lives': Ex-Anthropic researcher warns of AI 'catastrophe'

A researcher who spent three years building the systems behind some of the world's most powerful AI models has quit the industry entirely, warning that the companies racing to build ever-more capable AI "are gambling with our lives".

Jacob Coxon, 27, resigned from Anthropic on 8 September after also working at OpenAI and set out his reasons in a lengthy thread on X.

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