Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon Resigns, Warns A.I. Industry Is “Gambling With Our Lives”
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who worked on pretraining at both OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned from Anthropic and publicly warned that the AI industry is "gambling with our lives" by racing towards self-improving superintelligence. His seven-part message on X, amplified by an accompanying Wall Street Journal interview, gained nearly 76 million views overnight, with…