Anthropic researcher quits, calls AI an existential threat to humanity | Mashable
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Anthropic researcher quits, says AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade'
An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed it believes AI co
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Anthropic researcher quits, says AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade'
An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed it believes AI could kill all humans.
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September 9, 2026
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An AI researcher has quit
Anthropic
due to ethical concerns, claiming that the technology could kill countless people within the next 10 years — if not everyone. Jacob Coxon announced his resignation
in a post on X on Tuesday
, criticising both Anthropic and his former employer
for the ways in which they are developing AI.
"I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic," wrote Coxon. "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."
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Both Anthropic and OpenAI have been rapidly developing and releasing new AI models as they work toward creating
artificial general intelligence (AGI)
. Long considered the holy grail of AI technology, an AGI model would theoretically have the intellectual capabilities of a human, including reasoning, common sense, and creativity. An artificial superintelligence would surpass humans.
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However, even before such milestones have been reached, there have already been multiple instances of
AI models going rogue
. Earlier this year, researchers testing Anthropic and OpenAI's AI models observed them act outside their parameters and
hack into external organisations without authorisation
. In a high-profile incident this July, an
OpenAI model aut