Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon walked away from his entire unvested equity stake at Anthropic when he resigned over concerns about the safety of increasingly powerful AI systems, leaving the company just two months before his shares were due to vest.
Coxon had worked at Anthropic for four months. Employees must remain at the company for six months before their equity begins vesting, he told Axios in an interview. "I no longer have anything to gain by juicing up Anthropic's valuation," Coxon said, noting that he left two months before any of his equity vested.
