Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, has quit Anthropic after warning that artificial intelligence companies are racing towards self-improving superintelligence despite concerns over whether humans can maintain control, saying the technology could potentially kill humanity.
Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, spent about three years pretraining AI models before resigning from Anthropic. In a statement explaining his departure, he accused both companies of pursuing increasingly powerful systems despite concerns among researchers about whether humans can control them.
