Wednesday, October 14Global edition

Topic: AI researcher departures and whistleblowing

Anthropic researcher quits saying AI companies are gambling with human lives

Jacob Coxon, 27, spent three years on pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic before resigning publicly on September 9. He says both companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards and is calling for government intervention or an industry-wide slowdown.

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