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Beatrice Nolan

Anthropic researcher resigns, warning that AI companies are 'gambling with our lives'

Anthropic logo. (Credit: Photo by Imen Ben Youssef / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)

An Anthropic engineer has publicly resigned from the high-flying company, warning that AI companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”

Jacob Coxon, who has spent the past three years working on research into how to train AI models, first at OpenAI and more recently at Anthropic, announced his departure in a lengthy social media post on Monday.

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